Word: flee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mortality. "No one can get out without trouble," he said. "This thing with me will be resolved by death and violence." For once he was right. Two weeks ago, in the dead of night, fire bombs gutted Malcolm's home in East Elmhurst, N.Y., forcing him to flee with his family in nightclothes. Malcolm blamed it on the Muslims; they, in turn, accused Malcolm of planting the bombs in the house himself, partly for publicity purposes, partly because they had lent him the house in the first place and were now about to evict...
Taxi for Tobruk is a modest French-made drama that effectively understates the points that None But the Brave garbles at the top of its Voice. The setting is North Africa, 1942. Shelled out of their halftrack vehicle, four French soldiers flee across the desert. Next day they slip up to a German patrol car and slaughter four men camped on the sand near by. The fifth, an arrogant young Afrika Korps captain (Hardy Kruger), becomes their prisoner...
Sing Along with Gongs. In villages threatened by the advancing Viet Cong, Addiss and Crofut had to sing to a constantly shifting audience, a kind of music to flee by. The duo played in the imperial city of Hue and raised $1,400 for the nearly 1,000,000 homeless flood victims. In one remote mountain vil lage, their performance ended up in a woolly hootenanny with the loinclothed montagnard tribesmen chanting and playing along on gongs and flute. Faced by antagonistic students ready to argue politics, Addiss and Crofut always retreated to song. "As soon as they realized that...
...artists, The Threepenny Opera was first produced in Berlin in 1928. It depicts the chaotic existence fostered by the tottering Welmar Republic. The riots which the production provoked led to its suspension by the Nazis, and jeopardized the security of its authors, both of whom were later forced to flee Germany...
...Eastern Europe; he had been loaded with decorations and had risen to be editor of the country's most important literary magazine and director of the State Publishing House. Then, on a cultural mission to pre-Wall Berlin in 1960, he and his wife were able to flee. They had to leave their infant daughter behind in Bucharest, and she has never been released to them...