Word: fled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...August 1968, ten days after Soviet tanks crunched into Czechoslovakia, an electrician named Bedrich Gabriel fled the country with his two young children, leaving his wife behind. He settled with his mother in Yucaipa, Calif., 15 miles from San Bernardino. It seemed a poignant displacement of the cold war, nothing more. Gabriel's wife Vlasta, a component designer for a construction firm, opted to stay in Czechoslovakia, where she won a divorce and legal custody of the children. When Bedrich died in 1969, Vlasta, who had remarried, decided to ask U.S. courts for custody of the kids. The father...
...ANCIEN REGIME", as Blum and Smith call the world the street people have fled, is maintained through and ideology of self denial. Working class kids end up at Sanctuary because at some point they got fed up, and decided they had a right to something better than a warped home life, or a nine-to-five job, or a reform school. They decided that they had a right to be happy. Nothing Left to Lose and the counselling program it describes, are structure around a similar declaration of right. It is a fine book, and a very honest one--full...
Beyond VAT, Swedes face an awesome array of levies. The Social Democratic Party, which has held power for 40 years, holds that taxes should aim at demolishing accumulated wealth. Many high-income "tax exiles" have fled abroad to conserve the remains of their fortunes. The sharpest wrench for the middle class and the rich is the "wealth" tax, which requires individuals to list the value of their worldly goods-jewelry, cars, house, securities, bank accounts-and pay an annual 1% levy on any amount above $31,000. Income from investments-dividends on stock, interest on bonds, rent on real estate...
...this accusation Miller could not concur wholeheartedly. But he would argue that it's not only sex but thoughts of sex and the leaps of fantasy he takes off of it that matter. He writes about life force and the wonderful women whose imaginations he grapples with.. Miller fled America because of its gold standard of human exchange, the passionless cash nexus. He searched for relationships beyond the insane, mechanistic commonplace in which the obsession is only with the sexual organ of women...
...final massive explosion. Upward of 3,500 ceramic pots and vases have been found, but no human or animal remains and no valuables. Marinates explains that the people of the town, warned of the impending disaster by earth tremors and ominous outpourings of ash and gases must have fled in time and taken their treasures with them. The greatest treasures of all, however, from the archaeological viewpoint-the frescoes -could not be taken away by the doomed race...