Word: fleeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hotels and destroying the homes of 30,000 residents. By the time Gilbert touched the trembling but well-prepared Gulf coast, its epic force had been muted. Still, flooding and high tides swamped beaches and highways and forced more than 100,000 people in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi to flee in anticipation of its virulence...
Gilbert surged into the gulf after battering the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico with 160 mph winds, forcing tens of thousands to flee...
Adryan was not so lucky last year. A native of Potsdam, 15 miles from East Berlin, she had been arrested when she tried to flee from Czechoslovakia into West Germany. Granted amnesty after spending several months in detention, she decided to try again after becoming pregnant in May. "There was a danger they might take my baby from me and put it in a state home," she says. "I knew we had only one alternative, and that was to try to escape." In July she and her fiance, Thilo Koch, 18, and two friends conducted practice swims during a camping...
Already afflicted by famine and war, Sudan faced the prospect of plague and pestilence last week as record floods raged through Khartoum and much of the surrounding country. The swollen waters of the Nile River swept away entire villages, forced an estimated 2 million people to flee and claimed more than 90 lives...
...Freedom preferred to glorify its characters and tint them with melodrama. The values of middle class living were not questioned, and the relationship between the family and its Black servants was on a more monetary than emotional basis (e.g., the Woods leave money for the servants when they flee). It treated the escape from South Africa as an espionage thriller would, not as a struggle to leave a repressive regime. The film failed precisely because it sympathized totally with its characters and was unable to be critical of them...