Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tea & Sympathy. In another case, that of 26-year-old Andreas Panayiotou, who died in his cell, the commission ordered a postmortem, found that he had been beaten to death. Explanation by the British police: Panayiotou had attempted to escape custody. Yet another case was that of Maria Anastasiou Lambrou...
The biggest surprise of the meet came in the 177-pound class, where Brown's John Alexander sewed up an otherwise close match by gaining a 6 to 4 decision over Crimson Captain Bob Gilmor. In the third period, with Gilmor up, Alexander escaped, then took Gilmor down. Gilmor's...
Every so often somebody writes a novel which is both serious enough to escape intellectual opprobrium, and direct enough to be read without a long period of spiritual preparation. "The Homecoming Game" is such a moral-intellectual rodeo.
In Rod Serling's searing TV script, Sammy is four days away from "the biggest comedy show in the history of TV." He is surrounded by the usual coterie of chorines, con men, stooges and freeloaders. His head writer (Edmond O'Brien) plagiarizes to please him. His weakling...
Hryhory makes his escape at the last Siberian station before the prisoners are transferred to boats for the voyage to Kolyma. He plunges south into the taiga, the vast, swampy forest that stretches along the Manchurian border. After six days of flight, during which he has only a handful of...