Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some form of political conciliation. For the moment, he seems bent on the former. Despite his initial promise to restore democracy to Pakistan, the proposed constitution is clearly designed to preserve dictatorial powers for himself. If he insists on that course, warns Malik Ghulam Jilani, a political leader who fled to London for fear of his life, it will lead to the "demolition of Pakistan, brick by brick and stone by stone. Bhutto has tried to fool the people," he adds, "but now the people have seen his iron fist under the velvet glove...
...once the town supervisor. After two years he left college for a two-year hitch in the Navy, then returned to Cornell to finish near the top of his class, this time as an English major. V. was written on a $500 advance in New York. But Pynchon soon fled the city for Seattle, where his abilities as a mathematician and writer got him a technical writing job at Boeing Aircraft...
Vice President Agnew said last week, "It almost makes one ill to hear how deserters say they fled from an immoral war." On the contrary, Nixon could serve the country well by allowing those who refused to participate in the war to return. It does make us ill to hear a warmonger deride any force for peace while the American people and their allies bear their huge and pointless sacrifice...
...hits included Honeysuckle Rose, Ain't Misbehavin', Stompin' at the Savoy and Milkman's Matinee; in Los Angeles. The son of a Madagascan nobleman, Razaf (real name: Andrea Paul Razafkeriefo) was born in Washington, D.C., after his father had been killed and his mother had fled during a French invasion of Madagascar in 1895. He wrote more than 1,000 songs during the '20s and '30s and in 1972 was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
...overwhelm the cities' public schools. In Chicago and Philadelphia, the school districts are reeling under deficits totaling tens of millions of dollars. In New York and Los Angeles assaults on teachers and students were at an alltime high. In Washington and Richmond, so many white families have fled to the suburbs that the city schools are being left, de facto, segregated...