Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scheme to penetrate U.S. security. The plot involves a trip to the Greek island of Mykonos, and MacInnes evokes a picture of its windswept charm, just as in previous books she evoked the charm of Brittany, Venice and Berlin. Despite the current mania for Bondian gadgetry, her spies still hide their microfilms in hollowed-out tie clasps; neither her heroes nor villains spill gore, and her hussy enemy spies suggest, but only suggest, that their heels are slightly rounded...
Cowardice, pride, propriety, fear of fame-there are many reasons why writers choose to hide behind noms de plume. The author of this clean-cut gem of a first novel clearly was motivated by prudence. "Helen Hudson" displays such knowledge of faculty politics and makes the ambitions and jealousies of her professors and their wives so sadly true that it is obvious she occupies, or once occupied, her own glade in the groves of academe...
...making speeches while the witness is answering," Long regaled the committee with pure bayou bombast. "Do you think we are the international bad guy or the international good guy?" he asked. Confronted with this particular blend of jingoism and ingenuousness, the sophisticated Taylor looked as if he wanted to hide. "I hope we are the international good guys," he said with a weak smile."We certainly intend...
...blowing the whistle. Where once the North American dog had to beg for his supper and sleep outdoors on the welcome mat, now he is stuffed with Gaines Burgers, sprayed with Kennel No. 5, given the softest living-room sofa, and dolled up in costumes that should make Lassie hide her tail between her legs...
when Wahl saw the colonel coming, he tried to hide in between some sandbags, for he was on the line in a T-shirt, which was not regulation uniform. The colonel dug him out, however, and two hours later he was on the phone with his parents in Stoughton...