Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bodyguard were killed and the other bodyguard was critically wounded before any of them could use their guns. A blond youth was seen administering a coup de grâce with a machine gun to Swint as he lay dying. The terrorist commandos then broke up and fled before police arrived...
...there is still, always, the reassurance of the last scenes: the hellhound turns and meets his end, the new king comes to the throne intent on the needed repairs "of calling home our exil'd friends abroad, That fled the snares of watchful tyranny," and mending his country.--But this is a good enough production to let the words get beyond it: there's no need to Macbirden it more with any newer meanings...
...godlessness. Quietly symbolic of this reverse evolution is Rabbi Alexander Moshe Schindler, the roundish, cigar-smoking World War II ski trooper who was chosen to replace Rabbi Eisendrath as the U.A.H.c.'s president. Schindler was born in Munich 47 years ago. He joined the flood of refugees who fled to the U.S. in the late 1930s, eventually becoming the U.A.H.C.'S director of education and-six years ago-its vice president. Unlike Eisendrath, Schindler was raised in a traditional Jewish household. "We are recognizing the worth of that tradition," he says. "The human story...
Tallo dressed down one tank that was taking too much time shelling a bunker into which several Egyptians had fled. "The Jews are getting excited," he explained. Then he added, in some frustration: "The Egyptians are running away, and we cannot clobber them." Watching desert dogs fleeing from the Israeli tanks, Tallo said in disgust: "Even the dogs are running away...
Born in St. Petersburg in 1906, Leontief studied at the University of Leningrad before his family fled Communism. He earned a doctorate in economics at the University of Berlin, and in 1931 joined the faculty at Harvard. Among his students in 1935 was Paul Samuelson, the M.I.T. professor who won the second Nobel economics prize in 1970. Besides Leontief and Samuelson, Harvard's Simon Kuznets-also a Russian émigré-won the award in 1971, and Harvard's Kenneth J. Arrow shared it in 1972. Cracked Leontief: "Do you think there should be an antitrust investigation...