Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Allison's deeply etched females are pulled both ways. Like Delia Byrd in Allison's Cavedweller (E.P. Dutton; 435 pages; $24.95), they can achieve escape velocity and attempt dangerous re-entries.
President Suharto is testing the patience of Asians. If Indonesia goes down, there will be a devastating effect on the rest of Asia. We have seen Asian currencies dip every time he speaks of maintaining his anachronistic economic policies. The Indonesian economy is at the crisis stage, and international cooperation...
To awaken his country from its isolationist slumber, Roosevelt began a long, urgent, eloquent campaign of popular education, warning that unchecked aggression abroad would ultimately endanger the U.S. itself. "Let no one imagine that America will escape, that America may expect mercy," he said. The debate in 1940-41 between...
And yet. There are, in all these givens, elements that escape us. How did this unstable paranoid find it within himself to impose gigantic hope as an immutable ideal that motivated his nation almost until the end? Would he have come to power if Germany were not going through endless...
His was a bleak inheritance. Following the total defeat of France, Britain truly, in his words, "stood alone." It had no substantial allies and, for much of 1940, lay under threat of German invasion and under constant German air attack. He nevertheless refused Hitler's offers of peace, organized a...