Word: fled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came to the City and fled to Grand Central, the relentless heart of the world, beating us on and on in our journey to the Brain. And there we squeezed on, through track 29, for New Haven, New London, Providence, and Boston. From all walks of life, levelled and commingled by the frozen hand of nature, we battered and battled our ways into the train, and flung ourselves to the hard green bristles of its promiscuous lap. Mingling and yearning, touching and tonguing the mysteries of their separate tunnels of life, they slowly begin, as the train picks up speed...
Anglo-Saxons are Germanic peoples; Angles and Saxons came to England to clobber the native inhabitants (Celtic), many of whom fled to the mountainous sections of Wales, Scotland and to Ireland and to the Isle...
...ambassador to Venezuela, Novelist E. A. Braithwaite, handed the foreign ministry in Caracas a note written in words more angry than those of the gentle author of To Sir, With Love; the Venezuelans handed it back. As for the heirs of that old South Dakota pioneer, Ben Hart, they fled over the border to Venezuela. And the fine houses that the Harts built, under the trees they watered, were blackened heaps of ashes, burned down by the flamethrowers of Forbes Burnham's soldiers...
...does omit one American target, however. At one point, Karina sets the theme of the movie by telling the tale of the man who had a brush with death and fled, only to meet it in his flight. Throughout the film, Godard leaves a trail of authors' names: Robert Louis Stevenson, William Faulkner, Jack London, Raymond Chandler. One name he fails to drop is that of the man who made the legend famous by basing a whole novel on it. He is John O'Hara, and his book was Appointment in Samarra...
Million-Dollar Fee. Though Meyer has a formal title only at Lazard Freres in New York, he also guides two other loosely linked Lazard banking houses in London and Paris. A onetime Paris stockbroker who became one of Lazard's most influential partners, Meyer fled to New York when Hitler invaded France in 1940. In the years since, he has helped negotiate some of Wall Street's biggest deals, including the 1966 McDonnell-Douglas merger, for which his firm's fee was $1,000,000. Besides serving as investment banker to such companies as ITT and Owens...