Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At first, the guards in the armored train ahead tried to fight off the unseen attackers with gunfire, but after a moment they gave up and steamed away, ostensibly to get reinforcements. Meanwhile, a detachment of guards in the rear car of the express lay low, hoping the bandits would...
* Webster makes two painful tries: "(a) A form of consciousness characterized by desire of escape or avoidance, any varying from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture. (b) An affliction or feeling proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or bodily injury." Dorland's American Illustrated Medical Dictionary gives...
Most Government economists reckon that the big strike's chain reactions will be confined largely to steel-producing areas; the overall U.S. economy is too strong to be seriously staggered. A two-week strike, say the economists, would have very little effect on manufacturing because inventories (except in specialized...
In recent years travelers on tourist ships bound for Europe have been hard put to escape reading a small pamphlet put out by our State Department. The booklet tells the tourist that everywhere he goes on the Continent he will be regarded as an emissary of this country, "an unofficial...
Catacombs an Escape. "Communism has come to the conclusion that it will never succeed in destroying religion with brutal force; open persecution will never suppress the faith but only destroy its public and exterior manifestations. The Communists don't want this. They don't want a church in...