Word: fled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...switch has not been easy. Nehemiah was orthodox before he fled Hitler in 1935, and the orthodox scorned physical activity. The only place for a man, they believed, is in the study. Thus when he stepped off the gangplank onto the promised land, Nehemiah lacked even a rudimentary feel for physical labor...
...hypodermics-are passing hepatitis around on dirty needles. Venereal disease has also spread, and too many would-be hippies have allowed marijuana and LSD to become the main focus of their lives. Some of the most serious hippies, alarmed by these developments, have given up drugs altogether. Others have fled the scene...
...make their transition to retire ment less harsh, Obote is arranging severance pay for the kings in amounts ranging from $25,000 for the ex-Queen of Buganda, who stayed behind when Freddie fled, to $70,500 for the Omukama of Bunyoro. Obote has confiscated, however, most of the splendid trappings of royalty. He sent a dump truck to cart off the Omugabe of Ankole's throne, his velvet ceremonial robes, his gilt crowns and his fat royal drums of buckskin. Last week the aging, potbellied Omukama of Bunyoro watched sadly as his regalia of silken robes and black...
...read "harmless and non-toxic"). At Yale, a few students have been inhaling the gas since it was introduced last month by collegians returning from the West Coast. In Medford, at least 200 high school students were using it. Literally scared sick by the McCuan tragedy, scores of them fled to family doctors and hospitals, complaining of aches, stabbing chest pains and sleeplessness. Most of the symptoms seemed to be psychosomatic. But doctors warned that sniffers might suffer long-lasting effects, possibly brain-cell damage, from anoxia...
...Ojukwu could ill afford. Then, two weeks ago, after Ojukwu's Midwestern administrator proclaimed the "autonomous, independent and sovereign republic of Benin," federal troops poured across the border in force and raced toward the Midwestern capital. By the time they reached it, Biafra's outnumbered troops had fled, along with many Ibo civilians and $5,600,000 from the Benin treasury...