Word: flee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, they estimate that in Cambodia alone there are about a million refugees already. That means refugees from the American bombardment, since there's nothing else for people to flee from. That's in addition to half a million Vietnamese refugees in Cambodia, so a million and a half in six months of war in a population of six and a half million...
Often lacking the education to seek better jobs or the money to flee to suburbia, blue collar workers live with nagging fears of muggings, of illness or layoffs at work, and of automation. According to a recent survey by the University of Michigan, one-half of all industrial workers worry continually about their job security, and one-quarter are concerned about their safety; 14,000 were killed in on-the-job accidents last year, more than the number of U.S. servicemen who died in Viet Nam in 1969. Fully 28% have no medical coverage, 38% no life insurance...
Apart from such matters, there remains the remoteness of Mary's subject and theme. A 1924 Berlin boardinghouse full of colorful Russian émigrés simply does not have the broad appeal of Hotel. And your hero, who has been forced to flee Russia, where he apparently enjoyed a privileged life, is not likely to attract much sympathy today...
...Sudetens who wished to be German to remain in Czechoslovakia?" One year later, he came to the realization that, as he put it, "Hitler does not negotiate with nations which have submitted to him. He destroys them." By then it was too late. Daladier attempted to flee to Africa to join the Resistance, was captured by Vichy collaborationists and deported to Germany...
...hillside house near the town of Jamul, east of San Diego, watched the distant flickerings with little concern, then took some relatives out to dinner. Just before 6 the next morning, a group of hippies from a commune farther down the mountain roused Greene and warned him to flee...