Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, an estimated 1,500,000 Italians will get a welcome break. Charges will be dropped against petty thieves, burglars, check bouncers, and scofflaws, who pile up parking tickets in anticipation of amnesty. Even tax evaders will escape jail sentences if they pay up. Because the amnesty only concerns crimes...
Simone de Beauvoir's meticulous scholarship of her own psychology has made her a formidable, if exasperating, novelist and autobiographer. In both forms she has displayed an intransigent hostility toward the values of her own family-Catholic, provincial, bourgeois. She has celebrated an escape into atheism, Paris and existentialism...
Munro will have to do the same job today if Harvard is going to escape the cellar.
He has sold MGM seven new songs for the movie Say It with Music, and is toying with some ideas for a Broadway musical, East River, a valedictory valentine to the good old days when he slept on a tenement fire escape and dreamed of getting rich.
The teen-age marrieds present on the panel tended to agree that escape into early marriage is risky at best. One part-time secretary who was born illegitimate herself confessed she had yearned for security. A pretty cocktail waitress who was wed at 17 said, "I was marrying to get...