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Gerard found his safest hiding places in the secluded houses of the Roman Catholic gentry. Most of these manors had secret cubicles - "priests' holes" - where priests could hide if the house was searched. Gerard describes the end of one nerve-racking search: "Like Lazarus, who was buried four days, I came forth from what indeed would have been my tomb, if the search had continued a little longer...
...than grasping him under the arms. "He seems to have developed a sixth sense about bumping into anything that might break a bone," she says. "Unfortunately, he can't anticipate other people's actions. When visitors come, he usually sits under the table. He finds that the safest place...
...looked as if Gottwald had eliminated a dangerous competitor, and there were even people ready to believe that Gottwald was proving himself a potential Tito. More likely, the Kremlin had decided to jolt Czechoslovakia's rulers into meeting Soviet demands by striking down the man who had seemed safest of alL If the most loyal of them all could be convicted of disloyalty, so might men charged with even greater responsibility-President Gottwald, for example. It was entirely possible that before long, Rudolf and Klement would be teammates again-in disgrace...
...party can virtually ensure that its leaders keep their seats by assigning them to "safe" (i.e., traditionally loyal) constituencies. Under such a system, for example, Dean Acheson would have to run for office; and the Democratic National Committee would likely run him in Boss Flynn's safest Bronx district, or in the surest Democratic part of the Deep South. Robert Taft would be given a safe Republican seat in Maine or Vermont...
...accident will not end either the tug-of-war, still safest of the contests, nor the rivalry. Lioyd Neidlinger said better ropes would be used and students made to hold them farther away from the logs...