Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abbit" Angstrom once yearned for freedom. One night in '59, he went out for cigarettes and never returned. He fled: from a drunken, child-like wife, and a dank, frame-house row-home apartment. From wealthy in-laws, and cloyingly supportive parents. From the town of Mt. Judge, Pa., once greener, once marked by the men that lived in it; from the city of Brewer, its asphalt and industries. He left a baby son, Nelson, and the promise of a second, unborn, child...
...that of the Mafia. Hardly a single one of their posters has not been visited by angry pens of thumbnails, or ripped down completely. A recent rally for "laissez-faire" in Harvard Square ended when street people drenched an NRC Revolutionary War flag with lighter fluid, lit it, and fled as pieces of the burning flag fell on an NRC member. On TV and radio talk shows, more than the normal number of hostile listeners call...
...final two days of fighting, the Indians put rockets on the governor's house, starting a small fire and bringing about the prompt resignation of the Islamabad-appointed governor and his cabinet of so-called dalals, or "collaborators." They fled to the eleven-story Hotel Intercontinental, a Red Cross neutral zone that became a haven for foreigners, minorities and other likely targets. Thanks to three gutsy British C-130 pilots who made pinpoint landings on the heavily damaged airfield, all who wanted to go went, including two mynah birds and a gray toy poodle named "Baby" that had been...
...Cambodians finally retreated after 19 days of fierce fighting, only to be hit again at the nearby towns of Kompong Thmar and Baray. Some fled south to the starting point of Chenla 11. Others dug in at Kompong Thorn, which was by now choked with refugees. Premier Lon Nol, who had ordered the operation and staked his personal prestige on its success, called it off. The failure was evident: each side controlled almost exactly the same area as it held in August...
...deserters. Nina, for example, was a 36 year-old Massachusetts wife with a maid, two cars, a country-club membership and a corporate-executive husband who drank too many martinis and made too many passes at other men's wives. Committing what Gold fader calls "social suicide," she fled to the West Coast and took on the identity of a friend. There she got a job in advertising and acquired a new Social Security number using her friend's name. Despite her elaborate precautions, she was located through her real birth date, which she gave in applying...