Word: flee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such grim improvements in the barrier are clearly designed to discourage East Germans, 871 of whom escaped last year, from interpreting détente as a license to flee to the West. Other recent innovations will relieve East German border guards of any problem of conscience they might have. Although guards are under orders to shoot to kill would-be escapees on sight, some have apparently looked the other way or deliberately avoided hitting their compatriots. The East Germans have now equipped sections of the barrier with automatic self-firing weapons, mounted on three levels so that anyone seeking...
Tens of thousands of buraku-min have tried to flee oppression by "passing." But the risk of discovery is high -partly because of the diligence of private detectives hired either by corporation personnel managers or by parents who suspect that their offspring's fiance may be of buraku-min origin. Many outcasts, while passing at work in the city, still prefer to live in the reassuringly familiar surroundings of their special hamlets; they must resort to ruses like getting off the bus a stop or two early so that fellow passengers who are not outcasts will not see them...
...Executioner Adolf Eichmann. According to Farago, Bormann later used clerical clothes supplied by an Austrian bishop to reach Bavaria, then moved on to Northern Italy to visit his fatally ill wife in Merano. After his wife died, Bormann lived in a Dominican monastery in Bolzano, awaiting a chance to flee to Argentina where he had stored a fortune in currency, precious stones and gold, much of which had been extracted from the teeth of gas-chamber victims. Bormann, said Farago, had consigned the hoard to Argentina by U-boat before the war ended. The fugitive Nazi finally reached Argentina...
Some Like It Hot Billy Wilder`s hilarious force about a pair of musical Chicago ne'er-de-wells who get caught in the crossfire of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Florida with a girls' band. With Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in drag, and Marilya Monroe...
...combat in South Viet Nam. In a macabre version of musical chairs played an average of 25 times a day, the same scene was enacted: Communist forces move into a small town or hamlet early in the morning and announce their presence. The lightly armed regional government forces flee, usually without a fight, sending a plea for help to the nearest ARVN main force. The Communists lecture the villagers on Red doctrine, then recruit, enlist or impress young men into their army and perhaps levy some instant taxes. Soon the ARVN come to the rescue and, after an intense battle...