Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Goldwater, born in 1909, came by that conservatism naturally. His grandparents were Polish immigrants who came to America to escape anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe and then came to frontier Arizona to escape it in eastern America. Young Barry went to a military academy in Virginia for high school, and...
For the new middle class of the postwar years, all this was strangely captivating. The working guy and his wife were discovering prosperity. Sinatra ushered them into cafe society on their own terms: dinner jacket but no top hats. First class all the way but nothing fancy. Ordinary guys were...
That galvanized ethnic Albanians. The Liberation Army built up a concentration of forces near the Albanian border, and with an escape route closer to hand, the guerrillas grew more brazen, attacking Serb police and military camps. Four rebels maintaining a checkpoint at the border village of Smonica two weeks ago...
Have we been too hard on foreign despots? Inside of what appears to be a heartless tyrant like MUAMMAR GADDAFI is there really a sensitive thinker and environmentalist struggling to get out? Pierre Salinger thinks so. J.F.K.'s former press secretary has written the introduction to Gaddafi's first published...
Hey, guys, how's this for a twist? Let's take the end of the world seriously. Geez, how square can you get? No postmodernist, pre-apocalyptic ironies; a not-entirely-improbable cataclysmic threat--a giant comet hurtling earthward with no funny aliens anywhere in sight; special effects that serve...