Word: flee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many residents plan to flee town...
...either tossed his grenade at a parked jetliner, and was killed when it exploded on the rebound, or held the grenade in his hand and committed suicide; he was decapitated. The third Japanese was captured by an El Al employee as he dropped his gun and tried to flee the airport. In jail he pleaded: "Execute me as soon as possible, or let me kill myself...
...jazz joint in the Capitol Hill district of Washington, D.C. Her toughest adjustment was to the audiences, who were literally a far cry from politely attentive classical listeners. "Can we have a little quiet at Table Five, please?" Roberta would call out hopefully. Sometimes she would flee to her dressing room, vowing tearfully not to return to the bandstand until the clatter subsided. "I'd tell her to go on back out," recalls Wilkerson. " 'Some day they'll listen...
Most men of culture and science wore blinders. When the Nazis eventually forced Conductor Bruno Walter to flee Germany in 1933, he was nonplused: Why him? "I had never taken an active part in politics." In his Reflections of a Non-Political Man, written in 1918, Thomas Mann proclaimed that he was unpolitical and proud of it. He changed his mind later. The pit of politics was left to ambitious drones or dregs. In the end it was a couple of wellborn smart-alecks, General Kurt von Schleicher and ex-Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen, both conservatives, both of good...
...appropriate, at all levels of the decision-making and war-waging process but might also recommend a "general amnesty" for all: for Presidents, their civilian advisers, and their military officials from general down through the ranks, and also for those whose consciences caused them to choose jail or to flee the country, rather than serve in the Vietnam...