Word: hides
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...Thanks to images from a cell phone, we now know that the Iraqi National Police unit we turned Saddam over to was in fact a Shi'a lynch mob. Saddam's hangmen made no effort to hide their allegiance, taunting the deposed Iraqi leader with the name of radical Shi'ite cleric and power broker Muqtada al-Sadr. Afterwards, they danced around Saddam's corpse...
Marine Maj. Megan McClung could tell something was wrong when I appeared in her office at Camp Ramadi early in December. For starters, I looked terrible after a sleepless night that began with a freezing helicopter ride from Baghdad. And I couldn't hide the fear gnawing at me about my time ahead in Anbar Province, where U.S. forces suffer the highest casualty rates in Iraq. Indeed, I saw my first dead U.S. serviceman as I touched down in Ramadi, a shapeless form in a black body bag waiting in the dark to leave on one the Chinook helicopters that...
...Richard wailed, Jerry Lee Lewis smashed the piano stool and played the keys with his feet, and all helped liberate pop culture from the straitjacket of propriety. Rock ?n roll made them move like that. But those three had a guitar or piano to play or play with or hide behind. Brown had played the piano and other instruments, but onstage they?d just slow him down. He needed his hands and legs free to prowl, keep the band pumped up, work the crowd into a practiced frenzy. For 50 years, he was a full-service entertainer. James Brown...
...officer. Others point out that Iraq is the one of the most complex battlefields the American military has ever fought in-and tried to do it with too few troops. "What do we expect of young Marines who are executing a failed strategy in a place where civilians routinely hide the enemy?" asked one Marine officer who served in Iraq...
...full time husband and father, since John surprised us with the news of his extended vacation followed by an indefinite sabbatical that he was awarded for his dedication to his law firm these past 12 years. Can you believe that John’s modesty caused him to hide this honor from us for an entire month? John also had another surprise in store for us when he told us that he gave away our vacation house and sailboat to charity. He has been such a good example for the children. A self-described "freelance philosopher," John now spends most...