Word: flee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DeLillo can be funny as well as instructive. One typically addled character calls Cadillac "the Rolls-Royce of automobiles." A scientist, speculating that cosmic growth outward may have ended, imagines a newspaper headline: UNIVERSE SAID TO CEASE EXPANDING; BEGINS TO FALL BACK ON ITSELF; MILLIONS FLEE CITIES...
Their Majesties' speeches and itineraries are being prepared with surpassing delicacy, bearing in mind that most Americans' forebears were happy to flee monarchical regimes. Once here, the visitors will be interminably gossip-columned, misquoted, misaddressed and mispronounced. Yet wherever they go, they will excite the special rapture that republican hearts seem to reserve for crowned heads...
...Fleeing Whites. Thus Carter is against federal policies that would require the building of public and other federally subsidized housing on sites deliberately chosen to desegregate neighborhoods. With different language and emphasis, both Morris Udall and Henry Jackson have expressed reservations about too vigorous a policy of placing low-rent housing in high or middle income neighborhoods. Many black leaders have voiced similar misgivings. Says Eugene Callander, former president of the New York Urban Coalition: "Government should not break up a neighborhood on a numerical basis. As soon as the Government does, the white folks flee...
...Chairman. When the Cultural Revolution threatened to get out of hand, Mao called upon Lin, as head of the army, to restore order. In 1971 Lin, according to the official explanation, plotted to assassinate Mao and seize power for himself; when his plot failed, he tried to flee to the Soviet Union but died when his plane crashed over Mongolia. Whether or not that account is true, Lin unquestionably died because his hunger for power threatened Mao. Once praised as the Chairman's "closest comrade in arms," he is today routinely reviled as one of the most malicious "traitors...
There is now little doubt that the Cambodian government is one of the most brutal, backward and xenophobic regimes in the world. Cambodians themselves refer to the Khmer Rouge simply as "the Organization." Refugees who have managed to flee to Thailand -often after days and weeks of walking through thick forests and jungles along the border-describe the revolution as a chilling form of mindless terror. In sharp contrast to Laos and Viet Nam, where party cadres have subtly tried to win popular support for social change, there are no revolutionary songs, slogans, poetry, party newspapers or "reeducation" centers...