Word: hides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lomblot explained. 'We can also tell how long ago they were made by how windblown they are.' We passed a sugar-cane field. 'Hate to see sugar cane grown this close to the river,' he said. 'Good place for aliens to hide. Good place to hide dope or smuggled merchandise and later pick it up.' [Drugs as well as people do indeed flow north across the river...
...precise signal to the host's immune system for the production of specific antibodies against the invaders. As the immune system begins mustering appropriately shaped antibodies against the trypanosomes, the parasites change their coats and force the immune system to mount a new counterattack. This game of immunological hide-and-seek recurs throughout the course of the disease. The parasites become more and more deeply entrenched in the victim's brain and nervous system, and the patient progressively weakens...
...visitor to the hide-and clothbound world of rare-book dealers can fail to sense the excitement of the current paper chase. Behind the talk of versos and rectos is the awareness that big money is moving into the market. Disenchanted with stocks, wealthy investors have sought to beat inflation with old books. Connecticut Businessman Jonathan Goodwin, whose books were sold at the record-breaking auction, at least tripled his investment...
...mood in the hall was sullen. After the initial round of speeches, the delegates could agree only on overall aims. No amount of brave words could hide the fact that the lofty goals of the Treaty of Rome seem more distant today than a decade...
Child porn poses fewer hazards for the pornographers. Producers of child porn can be prosecuted for sexual abuse of children, but the children are hard to identify and locate. So are the producers, who often hide behind a welter of dummy corporations. Thus most prosecutions are under the obscenity laws, which generally make no distinction between children and adults as porn models. One result: many lawyers believe that the genital pictures in Lollitots, however offensive, might be judged no more obscene under the law than similar photos of adult women routinely published in most men's magazines...