Word: flee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority of the people in his kingdom are potential antagonists, and a sizable portion of his country is in Israeli hands. During the fighting in Amman, the 34-year-old monarch kept a helicopter standing by at Al-Hummar in case he lost the battle and was forced to flee after 17 years on a troubled throne. In the days to come, Hussein may regret that he never gave his pilot the order...
...HONEST, one must acknowledge the sincerity and appeal of the dream. Desire to flee the temporal world for a finer one motivated the great art of the western world. The inspiration that built the cathedrals of Europe needs no argument as a possible response to theworld. Yet modern man must finally have learned that such a response is wholly insufficient. Art cannot redeem the human suffering necessary for its creation...
...mere accident that Pusey is a devoutly religious man. His dreams are the legitimizing abstractions that have traditionally allowed intellectual men of faith to feel good about their lack of involvement with the world. The world is miserably dirty and oppressive. The choice is whether to flee that reality, or give oneself to trying to change...
...parasites, they may turn out to be more complementary in emotion as well. Women's Lib is not trying to destroy the American family. A look at the statistics on divorce-plus the way in which old people are farmed out with strangers and young people flee the home-shows the destruction that has already been done. Liberated women are just trying to point out the disaster, and build compassionate and practical alternatives from the ruins...
Traditionally barred from many occupations, the Jews of Europe's ghettos gravitated for centuries toward dealing in money and jewelry. By World War II, roughly half of the diamond cutters and polishers in Antwerp and Amsterdam were Jewish. Those who managed to flee the Nazis took their skills with them. In the late 1930s, several hundred anguished but unbeaten refugees started the industry that today produces Israel's chief export: polished diamonds...