Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repair under primitive conditions. The T-28s fly slowly (top speed: 346 m.p.h.) and low enough for pilots to sight and attack elusive guerrilla targets in the jungle. The transports can land on short, rough airstrios. The B-26s haul men, rockets and bombs, and ferret out enemy hide outs with ultramodern cameras...
With her elfin daughter Sylvia, Vera Brühne was a familiar and whispered-about figure in Munich. An elegant, well born, still icily attractive woman of 52, she loved expensive clothes, fashionable parties, the best nightspots. She also had some peculiar tastes; once she planned to hide in a Renaissance chest in her flat and watch Sylvia seduce a friend's 14-year-old son. Lurking in her background was a burly construction worker named Johann Ferbach, 49, a wartime deserter from the Wehrmacht who met Vera during an air raid in 1944 and remained with her through...
Waring, 54, to pierce what he calls "the paper curtain," a Northern newspaper conspiracy to hide the true South. But thanks to Tom Waring's stubborn silence, even his subscribers were beginning to wonder whether that paper curtain had not been hung by Tom Waring himself...
...many businessmen fear that the law is a prelude to outright confiscation, have been hiding their hoarded cash instead of investing it in badly needed production facilities. Some businessmen have no cash to hide. Moaned one Istanbul factory owner who was whiplashed by the alternating inflationary and deflationary policies of the Menderes regime: "In the U.S., you can build up a business and live on it for three generations. Here, in one generation I've run through three businesses." The government has kept the currency stabilized, is gamely trying to slash imports and boost exports to reduce the chronic...
...them. Soon dark flights sweep down everywhere, pecking the helpless to death-and corpses soon become skeletons. Great winged armies form-crows, hawks, seagulls, ravens, eagles, finches, starlings. The birds swoop down chimneys, chip through windows, even doors, whipping every corner with angry wings. There is nowhere to hide. No one is safe...