Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article on Governor Almond and integration left out a few pertinent facts. How about the thousands of families that have moved from the "District" here in Washington, probably with financial loss, to make new homes in Arlington and Fairfax counties in Virginia? They did so obviously to escape a...
When the tower of desire topples over at last, Kozol realizes you can't be a Harvardman and pretend you're not: "Thinking you could escape a system, and then finding out it had hold of you all along, and feeling it pull you back." Love probably implied forgiveness, and...
Under fire, Red pilots have shown their inexperience. Some have crash-dived into the sea trying to escape. One Nationalist pilot came up on the tail of a MIG. To his astonishment, the confused Red panicked, put on his brake flaps, slowed to 100 m.p.h. "I shouldn't really...
The Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's film about a Southern chain-gang escape; with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier (TIME. Aug. 25).
The Defiant Ones is yet another example of what too much money and too low an opinion of the general mentality can do to a potentially fine picture. The basic idea is a fine one: a white convict and a black one escape from a chain gang together. They hate...