Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Place to Hide. The prediction may not be all that far fetched. A crowd of 41,598 turned out at Yankee Stadium last September to watch Santos of Brazil play an exhibition against Inter of Milan, and 10 million Americans tuned into the Telstar broadcast last July of England's victory over Germany for the World Cup. What's more, soccer should be a natural for TV. Baseball fields are all the wrong shape, and the action is too slow; a good pro football quarterback can hide the ball from the TV camera as well as from...
...rough. You try to be brave-not brave as the absence of fear, but brave as the courage to keep up and go on. You want to scream and run and hide, but there's nowhere to go. You try to look ahead and see nothing but an unending, unchanging series of days-boring, frustrating, futile. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow-a tale told by an idiot, and you're the idiot. It's 10:30 and I'm tired. I'll just have to write Aunt Jean and Aunt Helen and Aunt Charlotte tomorrow...
...habit of gathering outside to wave at him as he left. Jokesters even started calling the area "Peyton Place." Yet, unlike many Puerto Rican men, Sanchez could not bring himself to conduct a covert affair. It was, he explained, "a problem of conscience. People say, 'You ought to hide the car.' But if it's something worthwhile and honest, how can you go underground? I felt I owed it to myself and to her and to everyone...
...covered with polka dots tonight. Some are painted on the floor (actors act on them); some are painted on pieces of canvas hung from the ceiling (actors hide behind them). Actually the canvas pieces are supposed to be cars, or maybe hotel rooms. A red-coated manager trundles back and forth waiting on the guests hidden behind the canvases, supplying them with hot water, bed-pans, binoculars, or women, and laughing a whole lot. Meanwhile, an exhausted athlete and a domineering lady keep running around the stage (they go to bed together, and emerge as policemen in the second scene...
...year-old mop man wears new Texas Wranglers beneath a soiled white apron, and the cook's slick black hair doesn't quite hide his bald spot. Blitman orders a Fried Egg Special. Two eggs over, hashed browns, one tough English muffin, a packet of marmalade, and regular coffee. Fifty-five cents. Joe Blitman has done Harvard on five dollars a day. The mop man sneezes into his shirt sleeve...