Word: flee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chairlift will provide a fantastic display of scenery. An unspoiled trail leading down through a grove of snow-covered trees can be breathtakingly beautiful. The appreciation of the outdoors is a refreshing contrast to the normal attitude toward winter. On a mountain you use the outdoors rather than flee them for the warm confines of Lamont. It is far too easy to sound giddily rhapsodic, but acres of powdery snow (or more frequently, gleaming ice) can inspire enough reverential thought about nature to inspire lifetime membership in the Sierra Club...
...isolation. Someone should talk to her son, who's a journalist in Washington--and I have talked to him on several occasions--who's suspicious of the whole outside world including the FBI, Nixon, all these other people. Someone should talk to Maxim Lieber, this literary agent forced to flee the country. (Lieber was accused by Chambers of involvement in the Communist underground...
Last week, after her lawyers stepped up their campaign to have her released, U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick agreed that Patty should be freed. Orrick declared that the stringent conditions he had demanded "will reasonably assure that she will not flee" before her appeal is acted upon...
...chosen script with a fine pair of actors. Ed Redlich's Murph swaggers and spits his lines with the air of someone who is not too bright but whose instinct will take care of him; he's like a chubby rodent that senses when to burrow and when to flee. Alan Stock plays a jittery boy with a cramped intelligence. His Joey is more attuned to emotions than is Murph: the taut nervousness in his shying gait, as though his hip joints were connected to his insteps by elastic bands, seems to stem from his sensitivity to other people...
...their advertising, opposition groups charged that businesses would flee Massachusetts if the grad tax won. Owners of small businesses such as the 40 firms represented on PAIIC's political action committee would be the first to go, since larger firms lack the mobility. But now, due to a large-scale campaign against the amendment, red-flag reaction against the word "tax," and voter misinformation, this is no longer a threat. The 40 businessmen on the PAIIC committee can cancel their househunting trips to Connecticut and New Hampshire, at least until next election year...