Word: flee
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...payments into line, and the value of the dollar may be threatened. Though the U.S. payments ran slightly in surplus during the July-through-September quarter, much of this was due to such temporary factors as the turbulence in Czechoslovakia and France, which caused considerable European capital to flee into U.S. stocks, bonds and banks...
...Bologna, students occupied the universities to drive home their point. Next came the turn of state employees to demand more pay and social benefits. For 24 hours, trains halted, mail distribution stopped, schools were deserted and telephone service snarled. Reflecting the crisis of confidence, capital once again began to flee from the country, and the Milan stock market slumped to a three-year low. In the middle of it all, the government resigned...
...judge a woman who has lived through the private grief of two public deaths? Whom does one marry after one has been married to the President of the U.S.? Maybe Jackie married Mr. Onassis in order to flee from the parental eye of all Americans. Who can blame...
...Lise Meitner, 89, Austrian-born nuclear physicist, whose basic research was vital to the development of the atomic bomb; in Cambridge, England. In 1938, after three decades of pioneering work in radioactivity with Chemist Otto Hahn at Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Lise, a Jew, was forced to flee to Sweden-just when she and Hahn were on the verge of achieving nuclear fission. When Hahn sent her the details of his experiments with uranium some months later, she completed the immensely complex mathematical calculations proving that he had indeed split the atom and, in the process, released...
Some 300 Boston and Massachusetts police were on hand for the rally, but there were no serious incidents. Shortly after Wallace's departure, Joseph Mlot-Mroz, the ever-present Polish Freedom Fighter, was forced to flee into the underground garage beneath the Common after he attempted to wade into a rally of some two thousand anti-war demonstrators while carrying a Wallace sign