Word: flee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...share a porous 1,500-mile border. In recent weeks there have been rumors in Dacca - vehemently denied in New Delhi - of border incursions by Indian troops. One Dacca version is that India wants to stir up unrest among Bangladesh's 10 million Hindus, thus encouraging them to flee to India as they did in 1971. India, according to this scenario, would use the ensuing chaos as a pretext for launching a full-scale invasion. Foreign diplomats in Dacca regard the rumor as implausible...
...shot is heard here or there," urged Announcer Sharif Akhawi of Radio Lebanon, who was the only source of reliable information for Lebanese during the fighting. Thus encouraged, Beirutis took advantage of the fragile peace. Many who had been trapped in their homes emerged-some in order to flee the city. Overflow lines of visa applicants waited outside the U.S. embassy. Most stores did not reopen, but sidewalk vendors-sometimes offering looted goods from those same closed stores-busily peddled everything from vegetables to fancy clothes. Suitcases were especially hot items. Traffic was nearly at normal bumper-to-bumper proportions...
...seriously 1-1-2 advocates misperceive undergraduate life. Is Riesman correct, for example, in saying that 1-1-2 is opposed by a "tyrannous" minority, part of which is "female or female-influenced" and is seeking only an "opportunity to impose its will on male captives and women who flee the milieux as soon as they can"? Does a four-class House, as Riesman suggests, place "freshman women...in a position to be put down--literally as well as metaphorically--by junior and senior...
...Radcliffe Quad, sophomores in the Yard and juniors and seniors in the river Houses, states that there is a "tyrannous minority in the Quad" which is "female or femaleinfluenced" and wants to preserve the Quad as it is and to "impose its will on male captives and women who flee the milieu as soon as they...
...dashing Russian prince, Michael Cantacuzène, during a holiday in Rome in 1899. They were married that fall and set up housekeeping on his 80,000-acre estate in the Ukraine, but the idyl ended suddenly in 1917 when the Bolshevik revolution forced them to flee to the U.S.-she with her jewels, including the ring of an Empress of Byzantium, and five oil paintings concealed in her skirts. Back in her native Washington, the princess eventually divorced the prince, who died in 1955, and lived out her years as an outspoken champion of the G.O.P...