Word: flee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only know how to sing and make love." Later he proved equally uncooperative with the invading Japanese, and French commandos had to parachute in to rescue him. Finally, in 1953, when the Viet Minh threatened to overrun the gold-spired royal capital of Luangprabang, the King flatly refused to flee. "This is my country and my palace," he said, "and I am too old to tremble." Then he went calmly...
...Wire, No Trenches. At week's end thousands of Communist invaders were being ferried across the Nam Ma river on rafts and rubber boats powered by out board motors, and Red patrols pushed within seven miles of Samneua City, telling villagers that it was futile for them to flee to the provincial capital since it would be in Communist hands in a matter of days. General Amkha seemed to agree. To cheer up his downcast aides, he cracked: "I am more afraid of Tokyo taxicabs than of the Communists." But his seven battalions, numbering more than...
Back to a Love. World War II forced Landowska. who was of Jewish origin, to flee France. She came to the U.S. and settled in Lakeville, Conn., with Elsa Schumicke and Denise Restout, who had been her constant companions for more than 25 years. There she concentrated on recording her interpretation of the old masters. Her recording of the 48 labyrinthine preludes and fugues of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is a modern classic. Landowska called it "my last will and testament." It was far from her last. At 76, but with the spirit of a sprite, the high...
...they ask, if the charges differ by an infinitesimal amount, too small to measure with today's best laboratory instruments? One result, they answer, will be the expansion of the universe. If the difference is only two parts in 1 billion billion, the galaxies will be forced to flee from one another...
...peaceful depths of the unit, ordinary gravitation prevails. Stars are born, grow old, and die, and planets revolve around them. But the galactic units themselves must flee from one another. They were formed out of matter that was fleeing, and they must continue to flee. They are like jigsaw puzzles put together on a moving train. They must move in the same way that their unassembled pieces were moving...