Word: hides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Downstairs was no better. The slaphappy laughter and pink fuzzy slippers couldn't hide the real sorrow of the tiny group of girls huddled around their milk and cookies. Saturday night at Harvard is really very little different from any other night. It does not carry the onus of "date night." But at Radcliffe on Saturday night the dorm is depopulated and only a few remain. It may not be in fact, terribly sad, but it sure seems that...
...their hillside enclaves towards the Thai border and relative safety from the new Communist push that they fear will come. Edgar "Pop" Buell, U.S. aid coordinator in Laos, estimates that disease or enemy action will take 20% of the Meo refugees during their 15-day march-by-night, hide-by-day trek west...
...constipation will continue; he may look pale and undernourished. Look for signs of injections: black and blue tattoolike marks, small scabs or long scars along veins, especially on forearms, backs of hands and insteps, small drops of blood on clothing. An addict may keep his sleeves rolled down to hide marks...
...stands, a U.S. citizen who has a substantial amount of cash that he wants to hide from the Internal Revenue Service has no real problem. He can take it out of the country, entirely legally, deposit it in a secret Swiss bank account, then arrange to have the bank return it as a foreign "loan"-and defy the IRS to say it is not. That is only one of the milder variants of a sophisticated array of illegal ploys that have been made increasingly easier in recent years by the proliferation of Swiss banks in the U.S. and U.S. banks...
...smuggling operation is simplicity itself. Italians hide wads of bills in suitcases, skiing gear, golf bags and false compartments of their automobiles. Border guards manage to seize only about 5% of the money. Once out of Italy, travelers make straight for one of the Swiss banks that are clustered almost as thickly as espresso bars in towns along the frontier. When deposited, the freely convertible lire are mostly used to buy Eurobonds or mutual-fund shares. Until last month, the Swiss banks had only to mail the lire to their nearest correspondent bank in Italy to receive full credit...