Word: fled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dadd fled to France, but was arrested when he stabbed a fellow passenger in a diligence going to Fontainebleau. He was committed to London's historic Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem, which has given its name to the language as "bedlam" (a Middle English variant of "Bethlehem...
Almost half of the 130 stores that once lined the city's main shopping streets are gone. So much business has fled the community that city hall is now the third largest employer, public schools the fourth. More than half of the city's families live on less than $3,000 a year; 21% of the labor force is unemployed. One-fourth of the 82,000 residents receive some kind of public assistance. Relations between the city's 38,000 whites and its 44,000 Negroes are abrasive at best. Though little organized vice survives...
...construction of defense settlements overlooking the West Bank of the Jordan River, as well as to a demilitarization of the West Bank area, but he rejected the idea of an Israeli cordon sanitaire along the West Bank. In turn, Israel accepted Hussein's demand that Palestinian refugees who fled the West Bank as a result of the 1967 war be allowed to return...
...Even though he had backed some of Reagan's moves during the Cleaver turmoil, Hitch came out flatly against Pauley and gave a list of practical objections. Long before the New York Times pointed out the trend last month, Hitch and his chancellors had watched with anguish as professors fled the increasingly-restrictive UC climate for Harvard and the East. If Pauley's plan were adopted, Hitch said, the University would have a hard time holding any of its faculty. Another administrator said that the Eastern colleges would chortle with perverse delight when they read of the plan...
Beheaded Virgin. Geel's enlightened approach to mental care is the product of a 1,300-year-old religious legend. Ac cording to the story, an Irish Christian princess named Dympna fled from her widowed pagan father when he ordered her to marry him. He pursued her across the sea to Geel, where, insane with incestuous lust, he beheaded her. He instantly recovered his sanity, thereby es tablishing Dympna's reputation as a virgin martyr with powers to cure the mad. The date of her canonization is uncertain, but in the 13th century a chapel in Geel...