Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...controversial disengagement plan. Dayan has called for Israel to withdraw its armor and artillery and Egypt its missiles and guns to 18 miles from the banks of the Suez Canal. Egypt would then be free to reopen the canal for shipping and return half a million refugees who fled from their imperiled homes along the canal during the bitter fighting before the ceasefire. For Egypt, the idea would mean canal revenues and restored prestige. For Israel, it could lead to a peace settlement and a new image among critics who complain that the Israelis are more interested in keeping...
...Syria. An authority on the history of Jews in America, he made it his mission to promote understanding of their important role in settling the New World. In Portraits Etched in Stone (1952), he described the arrival of the first group: 23 persecuted Spanish and Portuguese Jews who fled from Brazil to New Amsterdam...
...bauxite deposits, and has signed a $180 million agreement under which a Western consortium will mine and market the ore starting next year. But most hotels in Conakry normally do not serve lunch, for the simple reason that there is not enough food. At least 600,000 Guineans have fled into exile, many to neighboring countries. That alone is enough to make a ruler cry wolf every now and then...
Before police arrived the drizzle turned to a downpour, and the students and demonstrators fled the plaza in opposite directions...
...trusted in Harvard Houses, they can be trusted anywhere. Objections to the proposal for moral reasons can be dismissed on the grounds that morals cannot be legislated now that sign-outs are here. On the same principle it is unwise to lock the barn door once the mare has fled...