Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Water Buffalo Hide. The Revised Standard Version was not considered a likely source of profit in 1936 when Nelson decided to help the National Council of Churches finance the revision in return for a ten-year exclusive license on its sale. Many churchmen and publishers thought the RSV could never make a dent in King James Version sales, but it now accounts for a fifth of the U.S. market. When scholars finally finished the RSV in 1952, Nelson spent $3,000,000 on preparation and plates, sank a phenomenal $500,000 in promotion the first year of publishing, followed...
Dery's spokesman is an elderly professor who refuses to give refuge to a young freedom fighter after the rebellion is crushed, but who also refuses to hide the revolutionary's machine gun from the Red authorities. Contemptuous of both sides, the professor allows the gun to lie openly in the vestibule of his apartment. Later, the professor travels to the frontier in a train crowded with passengers who hope to flee to the West, at the last moment decides he cannot escape the guilt for having harbored a weapon that was used to kill others...
...Having reason to hide her condition," writes Dr. Bauer, "the unwed mother attempts to conceal her enlarging abdomen by pulling in her buttocks, much as the cowed dog tucks his tail between his legs. This flattens the abdomen and reduces the lumbar lordosis [curvature of the lower spine]. In this position the fetus lies more parallel to the maternal spine and the abdominal muscles are less stretched." By contrast, "the married mother carries her pride before her like a banner, and drags behind her a crippling backache which often becomes chronic...
...Saks's famed Antoine, offered the U.S. the look that topped this summer's Paris collections-swirling, soaring swatches of hair that take off into the sky like the aftermath of atomic attack. Unlike wigs, which cover the whole head, the new hair pieces do not hide the original hair but are attached to it with pins and go on from there...
...week there were at least 164 (with 50 proved by laboratory tests) and 13 deaths. Elsewhere in Florida 20 more cases were reported, and a Maryland boy died of encephalitis after a visit to Orlando. 100 miles northeast of St. Petersburg. By then the fever was too high to hide...