Word: hides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many as 15,000 fans to their twice-monthly games, the teams square off with up to five drivers on a side (the number varies depending on the size of the field). Once the ball, a hood-high wad of hard rubber and canvas stuffed into a buffalo-hide covering, is put into play, virtually anything goes-up to and including head-on collisions. One of the few prohibitions is cutting directly in front of another driver while he is rolling the ball. That violation results in a free "kick" by an opposing driver...
...says Erdman. In 1970, he and other officials of the United California Bank in Basel, Switzerland, found themselves in one of the city's 17th century dungeons. The bank had collapsed after losing more than $30 million speculating in cocoa futures, and the books had been doctored to hide the losses...
Englewood, N.J., Child Psychoanalyst Ira Mintz reports the feeling among many young people that they are not yet ready for sex; yet they soon discover that society expects them to embrace the new "freedom." For students, Mintz says, "there is no place to hide, no cur few behind which to take refuge, no rule that can be invoked without loss of face." Both men and women feel the pressure. Gynecologist David Chapin, consultant to a coeducational boarding school near Boston, suspects that when it comes to bragging about sexual exploits, "the girls' locker room has replaced...
...that the two star-crossed politicians are ready to talk ticket-balancing yet, but the partisan Wallace crowd could not hide its excitement for the two men seated side by side on the platform...
...bring in more revenue from high income taxpayers and to ensure that net benefits at lower levels were based on a realistic reflection of recipients' real income. (The idea behind the whole scheme was to simplify the tax structure so that taxpayers--the rich in particular--could not hide behind the tax shelters the present system provides...