Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-Communist Meo tribesmen, a rugged breed who live only above 3,000 ft., raise opium and Husky-like white dogs. (Standing advice to U.S. pilots: "If you're shot down, find yourself a Meo and hang onto him for dear life. Those little guys will save your hide.") Last week U.S. guerrilla warfare experts, members of a new outfit called the Liaison Training and Advisory Group (LTAG), helicoptered into mountain valleys behind the enemy lines, where Meo tribesmen gathered as many as 400 strong to greet their new weapons and instructors. The Meo's Colonel Vang Phao...
...mayor owned the tidy Beau-Rivage Hotel and was the most popular man in town. He did not mention the threatening letters he had received from French ultras, accusing him of trying to make a profit out of France's misfortunes and warning: "We'll have your hide...
...learn that flashy display is wrong; the third step is to learn that, if one is really "secure," one can afford even to be flashy. This interminable dialectic of snobbery can produce genuine anxiety, as is shown by the innumerable cases of people who frantically seek to hide their families, change their names, tailor their accents ? and wind up losing their identities...
They're really sweating on this one, said a House veteran. "They don't know where to hide." On nearly everybody's agenda, the President's request for $2.3 billion to pay for new public school construction and teacher salaries over the next three years had been written down for a fine old cliche-ridden battle between liberals and conservatives. But the Roman Catholic hierarchy's demand for a share of the funds for parochial schools-or at least a long-range, low-interest loan program integrated into the bill-changed all that. By last...
...looks like a giant, furry snail. He swims as a swallow flies, all liquid grace. He runs like something squeezed out of a tube, and whenever he sits down he looks like a six-year-old girl in her mother's fur coat-in some species his hide is so loose that it hangs down in folds and even spreads out on the ground around him. He is almost as tractable as a dog, certainly more ingenious and inventive. He is violently affectionate, independent, mischievous, curious-and naturally housebroken...