Word: flee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is quite real; that pockets of anti-intellectualism remain, especially in the West and South, and that even when people respect the intellectual they do not necessarily accept his ideas. The fact is, however, that for some time now the U.S. has not been a place that intellectuals flee from, but a place they flee to. Britain's C. P. Snow has summed it up: "During the past 20 years, the U.S. has done something like 80% of the science and scholarship of the entire Western world." Chicago Economist George Stigler guesses that in the Athens of Pericles...
...Heinrich, had given the Blue Rider group its first exhibition in his Munich gallery in 1911, followed it up a year later with one of the first comprehensive Picasso exhibitions and assured the gallery's fame. With the advent of the Nazis, the family had been forced to flee to Paris and begin again. But of the second Thannhauser collection in Paris, only a few bundled-up paintings, including a rare 1905 Picasso, escaped Nazi confiscation. They were enough to spark a new beginning, and over the years Justin Thannhauser patiently and painstakingly built up a backlog of modern...
...stole across the Wall, a 17-year-old girl who swam across a boundary canal, and an East German engineer who bilked a West German visiting East Berlin over Easter out of his identity papers by posing as a member of the secret police, then used the papers to flee into West Berlin...
...only living relative, Grandson Don Andres, 54, is a cultured celibate who has made a career of reading French history and collecting walking sticks. To top it off, Elisa has a vocabulary astonishingly rich in four-letter words and an imagination so diabolical that most of her maids flee in horror. For all her madness, though, the old girl has a no-nonsense way of getting at life's underlying absurdities. Her crude remarks on sex unleash in Bachelor Andres a flood of feeling he never knew he had. Her chatter about death, "like raising the lid halfway...
...seeking a way out. Fear showed in his fce and he looked as if he was about to scream or cry or even bleat. The suit jacket was dropped and forgotten. Still the horses came, battering him. At last he plunged to freedom, and the laughing riders let him flee...