Word: fled
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Despite educational reforms and enthusiastic participation by the Cubans in both their salaried and their volunteer work, the Cuban economy remains troubled. When the rich fled the coming Revolution they took both material wealth and technical expertise with them. They also destroyed the machinery they left behind. When the Revolution came to power, "it was not a question of distributing the wealth, but of distributing the poverty," Quintero remarked...
...failed will be placed in remedial classes, paid for by a $10 million grant from the legislature. The remedial students will be given two more tries. Some school officials fear that a lot of the fiunkers will never pass. A number of Florida juniors apparently agree: they have fled to high schools in Georgia, which does not require students to pass a minimal competency test to graduate...
Bishop Muzorewa, still regarded as the most popular black leader inside Rhodesia, denounced the military operations as "abhorrent massacres" that would "adversely prejudice" any talks with Smith. Proclaiming a week of mourning, the bishop declared that the dead are "mostly men, women and children who fled from the land of their birth to seek asylum." He said there could be no negotiations during the mourning period and boycotted last week's talks. Sithole, who was traveling in the U.S. to drum up support for his African National Council, also condemned the raids...
...father, the son of a Norwegian immigrant, worked as a local banker. As a boy, Sevareid would gaze out a window of the Velva schoolhouse at vast, monotonous fields of wheat and dream of the distant cities pictured in his geography book. He escaped: to Minneapolis, where his family fled when drought hit Velva and where he went to the University of Minnesota; to Europe, where Edward R. Murrow hired him in 1939 for CBS's illustrious wartime team; to Washington, where he was the network's national correspondent and began his commentary on Walter Cronkite...
...Proudhon." The 1871 revolution found him on the side of the Paris Commune, which called for the demolition of that symbol of "false glory," the Vendome Column. Later, the Commune crushed, a vengeful state passed a law to make Courbet bear the cost of restoring the column. Bankrupt, he fled to Switzerland and died in exile in 1877. There is always room for argument over the extent of Courbet's realism. The man who insisted on setting down the bald truth of visual experience, from a drunken priest's red nose to the drool on a stag...