Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trade School. In Hartford, Conn., denying any attempt to escape, Convict Charles Glover explained that he had tied bedsheets together because he wanted to learn how to braid hair.
In The Way It Was, love and memory are enough; he has fashioned a timeless frieze of the titans and the lotus eaters of the '20s. It is perhaps typical of Loeb that a decade later he was a devotee of technocracy. His generation could never escape the Gatsby...
The Class of '59 had several other distinctions. It was the last Class to escape the $10 admission application fee. It was not, however, fortunate enough to escape a tuition increase of $450 during its undergraduate career, from $800 to $1250, an unparalleled tuition rise for one Harvard class. Harvard...
Surrendered Crown. Tall, handsome Leopold III, 57, was a hard-luck monarch. His queen, Astrid of Sweden, died in 1935 when a car driven by Leopold crashed into a tree. In 1940 Leopold refused the urgent pleas of his ministers to escape to London and set up a government in...
Obviously embarrassed, the Tories stalled off Labor demands for a judicial inquiry, protesting that the question of prosecution was still being examined by Kenya authorities. Finally Julian Amery, Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, stood up in the House to announce: "The Attorney General of Kenya has decided that...