Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...silence is eerie. Shell holes seem a natural part of the land. They are everywhere, vivid as footsteps in snow, unmistakable evidence that the Israeli 175-mm. artillery guns have been put to frequent use. According to people who fled the area, there were few civilian deaths. Refugees said they were not bombed as they fled north on the road...
...Moreover, 48 per cent of Boston's land, including colleges, hospitals, cultural institutions, state property, and federal property, was, and still is tax exempt. Attempts to cover the spiralling costs by raising the tax rate merely resulted in the further shrinkage of the tax base as white collar professionals fled the city for the lower property tax levies of the suburbs. The state legislature, controlled by the suddenly powerful combination of suburbs and the western districts, refused, and continues to refuse, to help the city cope with its "Catch-22" predicament...
...strange initials on Britt Ekland's jacket? "R.S.G. stands for Rod Stewart Gone," shrugs Britt, 34. The Swedish-born actress and the British rock star once swore "faithfulness to each other in mind, body and soul." Alas, some other pretty face came along and faithfulness fled. Now, on grounds that "he became a superstar with my aid," Britt is suing Rod, 32, for $5.25 million -believed to be half his assets -and another $10 million in punitive damages...
...academician who did not go into business until he was more than 40. Born in Ulm, Germany, Eckstein fled Hitler in 1938, graduated from Princeton and in 1955 earned his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard, where, as he says in his fast-paced, slightly accented English, "I found a home." He has taught there ever since, except for 18 months in the mid-1960s, when he was a member of Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers. (Professor Eckstein's popular course in freshman economics usually draws well over 800 students...
...extradition treaty with South Korea. But Tongsun Park was clearly operating at least part time on behalf of the Korean CIA before he fled Washington last fall to avoid questioning, and Seoul surely could serve him up if it seemed necessary to appease American critics. Seeking to show that that kind of appeasement might be necessary, a freshman New York Congressman, Bruce F. Caputo, urged the House to lop off $110 million earmarked for South Korea in a foreign aid appropriations bill. Caputo's amendment was defeated by a vote...