Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The U.S., the President reiterated, obviously does not want a war that might mean the destruction of civilization, although it has the strength to wage and win one. But the real, the basic issue, is how best to prevent such a war. Said the President: No nation has ever been...
¶ In Vienna, one of Koch's most efficient killers, a 52-year-old former SS master sergeant named Josef Gabriel, faced justice for wholesale murder in Galicia. Early this month, to escape trial, Gabriel had hurled himself from a third-floor courthouse landing, but he survived to hear...
Back at college, students who have not been to Europe receive vicarious tours, and the general feeling is one of close familiarity and affinity with Europe and its people. The danger of this impression of cosmopolitanism lies not merely in its inaccuracy, but in the convenient rationale it affords for...
Inside the tinderbox building one boy woke as the flames rolled across the fiberboard ceiling, and cried out the alarm. Flinging themselves against the windows, some of the youngsters slashed their heads and arms on broken glass, tore frantically at the "escape-proof" steel mesh between them and safety. While...
Soon after the last of its light was lost among the stars, instruments and computers indicated that the flight would be a success. Top speed achieved (24,700 m.p.h.) was slightly less than planned (24,985 m.p.h.), but it was still 200 m.p.h. more than was needed to escape from...