Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before Nasser left for Russia, the West had given him a chance to escape any further Russian clutches. After Nasser settled the expropriated Suez Canal Co.'s claims for $81 million (TIME, May 5), Washington freed $26 million in frozen Egyptian assets, and U.S. Ambassador Raymond Hare told...
Romantic Movement. By missing Vice Admiral Ruben Piedrahita, the fifth man in the junta, the rebels made the fatal mistake in their comedy-of-errors revolt. A little after 3 a.m., Piedrahita got a phone call from Public Works Minister Roberto Salazar, a neighbor of kidnaped General Fonseca. "There'...
¶ Charles Spencer, third* Duke of Marlborough, was the first to escape Sarah's whip hand, hailed his freedom with debts and extravagances totaling some half a million pounds. Charles died in 1758 in the Seven Years' War, a few months after his precipitous withdrawal by sea from...
Ingenious Blend. But can Sam be proved to be Stiller? That is the question-and it is one that has always intrigued the theologians and philosophers who have delved into the problem of personal identity. "Good Swiss commonsense" knows that "Sam White" is the fiction of a desperate man who...
The color is smeared across the screen with a garbage glare, the dialogue is dubbed in from the original Italian, and the small-scale spectacle comes to a limp conclusion as Attila repents and rides back to the Danube with a white cross burning in the sky. But it is...