Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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All Italy got the joke, all right, but the returning Amintore was not amused. First he blew his 5-ft. 1-in. top at his wife, and when she tried to escape by closing a door in his face, Fanfani reportedly kicked it in. Only when things were settled at...
Two years ago, three East Berlin students donned homemade Russian uniforms, doctored a car to look like a Soviet military sedan and calmly drove through a checkpoint in the Communist Wall, unchallenged by the border guards. The story of the ingenious escape obviously got around, for last week West Berliners...
Tombaugh believes that the canals are faults or fractures, several miles wide, in the Martian crust. Their darkening and fading may be caused, he says, by the intermittent escape of hot gases that melt a thin layer of frost and vegetation. The oases where the faults intersect, he speculates, are...
Also verboten was any passage by East Berliners in the opposite direction. To underline that point, two Americans were sentenced to eight years of hard labor by an East German court for helping five East Germans to escape. Moses Herrin, 23, and Frederick Mattews, 23, both former servicemen working as...
Cut dead by most of his friends, ripped apart by the gutter press, bewildered by expensive lawyers who gave him bad advice, belabored by indignant judges who prejudged him a monster of depravity, Sir Charles staggered pathetically through two sensational trials. Crawford won his divorce; Dilke was lucky to escape...