Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balanced assessment of the Ford program was offered by Bill Meis, 29, an aspiring novelist who lives with his wife and two children in Montreal. Denied conscientious-objector status, he fled in 1968. "O.K., I accept the sentiment behind the proposal," he says, "but it's a kind of humiliation, a concept that we were subversive. It's a hardship for our families. Some of them would have to go on welfare for two years while husbands served out their debts. I've had a very good life here, but there's no point in denying...
...hunger for materials that could not be satisfied. The prices of such key metals as copper, zinc and lead, along with such fibers as cotton and rubber, doubled and in some cases tripled by late 1973. Then the energy crisis caused stock and currency values to wobble. Speculators fled from stock and foreign-exchange markets into the seeming safety of the rising commodities markets, bidding raw-materials prices up another...
...troubles on Cyprus this summer sent ripples towards Boston and even Harvard. Greek Americans in Boston demonstrated and picketed against the Turks and two archaeological expeditions which included some Harvard students fled the island after the Turkish invasion on July...
...draft evaders would weaken the power of the country to draft in any future emergency. They refused to accept responsibility for their decisions. Perhaps if they had remained in this country and refused to serve, their public example would have shortened the Viet Nam War. As it was, they fled, abandoning their birthrights. They cannot now reclaim them...
...attack; in Munich. An early ally of the rising Führer, Strasser preached Nazism with a socialist tinge and became disgusted by Hitler's later romance with big business. Expelled from the party in 1930, he formed the rival Black Front committed to Hitler's ouster, fled Germany in 1933, and churned out propaganda while leapfrogging about Europe one step ahead of the Gestapo. In 1941 he found refuge in Canada (probably in exchange for information he furnished Allied intelligence), where he pecked at his typewriter and awaited repatriation as Germany's savior. He returned home...