Word: hides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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world dark clouds may hide...
...Bayh were absent when the vote was taken. Bayh is sure to support Ervin, and McClellan may also go along. Then it will be up to Nixon to decide whether to instruct Flanigan to ignore the subpoena, thus risking the further impression that the White House has something to hide in the ITT case-and possibly losing his nominee for Attorney General as well...
There are other familiar examples of the nonverbal remedial ritual. To hide her embarrassment at having to go to the bathroom, a girl at a party sometimes uses broad swimming motions to cut her way through a knot of guests obstructing her route. In Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, out "hunting" with a friend, is startled by something innocuous and jumps involuntarily. To show he really isn't frightened he jumps up and down several more times in "an exercising sort...
...article in the Yale Law Journal (excerpted from his forthcoming book Counsel for Ihe Deceived), Schrag lays out in choleric detail the serpentine methods used to block any legal redress for gypped customers. Accused businessmen hide out to avoid subpoenas. Lawyers with political influence apply pressure to kill an investigation. When a case finally comes to trial, the defendant's lawyer may ask for a stay because he has been sick; when it next comes up, he resigns from the case, supposedly because his client will not pay his fee; that means another delay for a "new" attorney...
...role (TIME, March 13), no member of the cast has a more appropriate background for the movie. Of mostly Sicilian descent, he was raised in the South Bronx, a place that is less a neighborhood than a survival test. He was a solitary boy who used to hide out for hours atop an advertising billboard and who lived in fantasies spawned by the movies his mother took him to see. (His father, a mason, had left home when Al was two.) He entertained the other neighborhood kids by spinning stories. "I would tell them I was from Texas," he recalls...