Word: fleeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard College is no longer the exclusive property of Boston or the Northeast; many of its graduates flee yearly to the Provinces. It would seem that a far greater participation in the Fund could be assured if Harvard increased the number of its agents to include at least one from each House, and adopted a regional organization for its solicitation, as is done before the 25th reunion...
...shopkeeper whose sole strength is her daughter's need of her. Rosetta's convent education has scarcely prepared the girl for a world in which the bombers seem almost to have crowded God out of the heavens. When the bombing of Rome appears imminent, the two women flee southeast to the mountain fastnesses where Cesira was born. The return of the native proves harsh...
...enthusiastic campaign" for the election of all "nationalist democratic candidates" in October's congressional elections. The thought of Prestes' votes whetted political thirsts in Congress; five days later the judge who has jurisdiction over Prestes' case decided that the Communist leader "does not intend to flee from application of the penal law," and revoked the arrest order. Above ground, Prestes will probably strive for re-establishment of Brazilian diplomatic relations with Russia, legality for his party, increased membership. During his last period of freedom, from 1945 to 1947, he built membership from 900 to 130,000, making...
...state. Anna, the heroine (Soprano Clara Petrella), has lost her husband in the revolt, is separated from her children and her old friend Renato (Tenor Ferrando Fegrari). Anna escapes the soldiers assigned to crush the revolt, is briefly reunited with Renato, who becomes her lover. She tries to flee with him to America, but is arrested and shot down when she attempts to escape from a police station. "Love," concludes Composer Rossellini, "is the only thing the vortex [of modern society] can never sweep away...
...Hungary's Foreign Minister, longtime (since 1918) Communist, onetime gun-toting activist (in Bela Kun's post-World War I Red rebellion) and Minister to the U.S. (1949-51), who saw his own son Imre and his nephew Alexander turn freedom fighters in the 1956 revolt, then flee to Austria; after a gallstone operation; in Budapest...