Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palestine," and this week it begins in earnest. On Monday the United Nations Security Council is scheduled to begin debate on the Middle East situation. It is virtually certain that a large amount of the rhetoric will be devoted to the Palestinian problem-the plight of those Arabs who fled from the former British mandate of Palestine rather than live under Israeli rule. Although many have prospered, an estimated 644,093 still live in refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the Occupied West Bank and Gaza...
...Royal College of Physicians. The established doctors resented the healing business that Forman diverted from them. He had learned what little medicine he knew "under a hedge." Forman replied that he had kept up his practice in London during the plague of 1592-93, when most respectable physicians had fled to the country. Rowse takes Forman's side. Judging from surviving records, the untutored amateur seems to have wreaked less carnage than the certified practitioners who bled or purged victims at the drop of a symptom...
...many of the Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees who fled to the U.S. when their governments collapsed last April, the problems are just beginning. According to the Federal Government, 23,768 refugees are on welfare and another 4,374 have applied for public assistance of some sort...
...country's Crown Prince. After Morocco gained its independence, Ben Barka's friendship with Hassan turned sour as he moved leftward in his politics and eventually headed Morocco's political opposition. In 1963, he was elected president of the National Consultative Assembly. Ben Barka later fled into exile in Algeria, and was condemned to death in absentia, allegedly for taking part in a plot against Hassan's life...
...Nora. "They were written for you." Yet because everything Joyce experienced found its way some how into his fiction, the exposure of his raw sexual fantasies is not the simple invasion of privacy it might seem. Joyce's life was a tug of war between schizoid contradictions. He fled Dublin but never wrote about anything else. He renounced Catholicism, then cast himself as a higher priest who would transform the bread of common life into art. As these newly released letters show, the aloof classicist also struggled with the dark sensualist. "It is strange," Joyce wrote Nora...