Word: incognito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mestrovic, who now teaches at Syracuse University, added that the Yugoslav ambassador also had been urging him to return, if only for a visit. "He said that if I wished I could go incognito. But I will go to Belgrade incognito only when Tito goes to Moscow incognito...
When he reigned, Leopold had a reputation for disregarding his ministers' counsel. But at week's end he canceled his hunting junket, instead took his princess to Paris for an "incognito" holiday...
...western, and thus a considerably better-than-average movie. Victor Mature, a gunman employed by silver-mining Tycoon Albert Dekker, suspects his boss of framing his father (an Army officer court-martialed after an Indian massacre at an Arizona fort). It is fairly easy for Mature to run around incognito, since none of his law-abiding family would claim him. His ineffectual brother (Glenn Langan), hot on the same vengeful trail, is more of a headache; brother nearly bungles everything...
Niels Bohr, too, was unsure. Bohr's model of the atom (nucleus and orbit electrons) won him a Nobel Prize in 1922. He escaped from Nazi-ruled Copenhagen in 1943, and brought his precious knowledge to U.S. atom-bomb builders, with whom he worked in thin incognito as "Mr. Nicholas Baker...
Congressman Lowell Stockman, towering (6 ft. 6) wheat farmer from Oregon, improved his leisure in Washington by conducting (incognito) parties of rubberneckers through the Capitol. He thought it might "improve my public speaking" and even teach him a few things. After a few days he reported it had done both; he enjoyed it so much he planned to stay at the job for another week...