Word: asylums
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...flight on a river barge; the Prix Théophraste Renaudot to Pierre Molaine (in real life Major Léopold Faure, tank officer in the French army) for his Les orgues de I'enfer, a story about a resistance fighter hiding from the Gestapo in an insane asylum. The fourth big prize, the Prix Interallié, was yet to come...
...King asked Prime Minister Rana for permission to leave the country. The present Sr1³, unlike Jung Bahadur Rana, refused to let the King go into exile. The King, with some of his jewels and both of his wives, sneaked into the Indian embassy, claimed the right of asylum...
...opposition-party civilians, start them shooting, then take over the presidency for the civilian plotters. But somebody talked, and Gálvez quietly squelched the plan without a bullet being fired or a viva sounded. Velasco and four confederates were sent to jail, while two others fled for asylum to the Guatemalan embassy...
...when Browning began eagerly to search for further masterpieces by Christopher Smart, he could find nothing but a dull collection of odes and occasional pieces. Browning did discover, however, that poor Poet Smart had been confined in an asylum just before A Song to David was first published - which prompted Browning to the romantic conclusion that Smart had been no better than a hack while, he had his wits; that when he lost them his dormant genius had burst into bloom...
...issued a long statement of resignation at U.N. headquarters. Insisting that he was still a "socialist", he sent Joseph Stalin a cablegram, quoting Lenin at him to prove that Stalin really shouldn't be so beastly to Czechoslovakia. He also dispatched a third message, to President Truman, asking asylum in the U.S. for himself, his wife and two daughters. "I [do] so," he wrote, "in order to protest to the whole world against the methods which are being used in Eastern European countries...