Word: flee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Police sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the elder Campos sprained his left ankle when he tumbled down an embankment last Thursday, trying to flee his captors...
...half dozen greatest Americans; he worked with the nation's fatal realities and died--as he knew he would--to change them. I suspect that if Clinton ever thought his ideas, such as they are, would put him in danger, he would drop them and flee at the speed of light. Clinton has had his moments, but an awful lot of his tenure smacks of a Renaissance Weekend's theater of illusion, sleight-of-hand performed for an audience that is being looked after by someone backstage--Alan Greenspan...
...flee to relief in humor, but it is a bitter, jeering kind. Clinton will remain a laughingstock of e-mail and late-night television unless and until he bombs another pharmacy. That will only turn the humor darker. I try to recapture my old admiration for the man. But why do I sense that sunny, lucky, lip-biting Bill Clinton, with his shoeshine and smile, is not merely a figure of occasional dark possibilities but fairly sinister in his essence? The root of the trouble lies in the intuition that at bottom he is incapable of thinking about anyone...
...under communism, yet he is a storytellerpoet more concerned with the forests than withpeople. He does not run from his own historicalcontext; but he, in a move that will perhaps beincreasingly repeated, bravely attends to himselfand many of the old cares of poetry in their turn.He certainly does not flee his time, carelesslyrutting in transcendentalism or other naiveaesthetics. In fact, his language and reliance onoblique image is, if anything, a testament to thecomplexities of the present and the wisdom ofcontemporary poetry not to state naively what hasbeen disproved by the last century. But moreimportantly, upon even a first reading...
There was little Aguilar could do. If he had tried to back out, he insists, he would have been killed. He urged the conspirators to let him use a long-range rifle, but they were adamant that he use an automatic pistol up close and flee in a waiting...