Word: flee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supplied by Richard Nixon) or sailing in an assured, near professional style (he was an Olympic gold medalist in 1960). Deadly serious about his future, King Constantine, 33, has conscientiously kept up with Greek politics since the failure of a 1967 attempt to oust the junta forced him to flee his homeland...
...notion of wedding should come as no great shock. The campaign against the Viet Nam War is now all but over. Berrigan himself, writing in 1972, was beginning to argue that celibacy can be "an excuse to flee from the complexities of human love." Besides, the two peace rebels had grown closer together during months of shared adversity...
...David Ben-Gurion formally proclaims the state of Israel. Next day six Arab armies invade the new nation, but within weeks are defeated by the Jews on every front. All but 160,000 of the 750,000 Palestinian Arabs flee the fighting to neighboring states...
CYRANO. After weeks of brave resistance to The Crimson's devastating pan, the old boy is about to sheathe his sword, bench his nose and flee to the wilds of New York. Closing, that is, after Saturday's performance, 7:30 at the Colonial...
...need of a new scapegoat for his country's troubles. The latest victims of his uncertain wrath are blacks from neighboring Kenya. In the past month, several Kenyans who held executive positions in Uganda have disappeared or been found murdered. When other Kenyans in Uganda began to flee in terror, Amin accused them, naturally, of being guerrillas and hinted that he might shut off the electricity that Uganda supplies to Kenya-25% of its total power. His freewheeling troops, meanwhile, crossed the Kenya border and rustled 4,000 cattle from terrified Turkana tribesmen...