Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chartres cathedrals. It has a sophisticated echo, more sweetly mysterious than ever, in Leonardo's Mona Lisa. The quiet intensity of the smile-secretive and yet loving, serene and yet troubling-can be mimicked by such moderns as Picasso but never successfully counterfeited; it seems to have fled from modern...
...Qumrân settlement, he said, was founded by a group of "religious extremists," the Essenes. They probably fled into the desert from Jerusalem's evil priest-king, Alexander Jannaeus, who ruled from 103 to 76 B.C. The unpopular Jannaeus was once pelted with fruit on the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkoth). According to Professor Allegro, this was the man who descended on Qumrân and arrested its leader, the mysterious "Teacher of Righteousness," whom he turned over to his mercenaries to be crucified...
...trenches, as a subaltern of 19, Lewis himself was blooded-hit in the back "oddly enough by an English shell." During the postwar decade, first as a starveling poet and then as tutor at Magdalen College, he felt something else at his back-the Hound of Heaven. He fled over the shifting ice floes of intellectual fashion: rationalism, realism, idealism, materialism. Still the Hound pursued, and Lewis was finally backed into a corner that became home...
...many a resident of Communist East Germany, the nicest thing about his country, compared to the other satellites, is the ease with which he can get out of it. Last year a total of 252,870 East Germans fled westward, among them 2,553 People's Policemen. So far this year, the escape traffic has been even higher: 18,828 in 1956's first 20 days. These are not East Germany's aged, tired and homeless; most are hard-working farmers and factory employees fleeing excessive work norms, or young men who want to escape the draft...
Last week, as the battle continued to rage, Muhammad and his baffled master, out on bail, fled back to the mountain fastnesses of Nepal. After all, as Maganlal said, "A man can change his name but a dog cannot. No dog will answer to a different name...