Word: flees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forced to flee his British Ministry of Information job in Paris when the victorious German columns entered the city, Maugham made his way south through the chaos of collapsing France while London papers listed him as missing. For days he waited for some means of transportation, finally received orders to embark on one of two colliers sent to rescue British subjects from the Riviera...
Flight v. Fun. Present medical fashion regards all alcoholics as neurotics and psychotics who drink to flee from harsh reality, overcome a feeling of inadequacy, or express homosexual tendencies kept under during sober periods. Doctors' great problem, says Director Nolan Dan Carpentier Lewis of New York State Psychiatric Institute, is to uncover the mental disorders which drive men to drink...
...Norway, indomitable old King Haakon, a refugee within his own country, broadcast another appeal to his people to resist, gave no sign that he would flee abroad...
...terms it does, Valkonen abandons his pacifism, turns down a chance to leave Finland, and goes, like his patriot son, to be killed. His wife (Lynn Fontanne) stays also, prepared to defend her home, but she compels her daughter-in-law, who is expecting a child, to flee the country...
...rabbity couple meet at a dance, flee that night to the woods to become trappers. Unmarried, dogged by hard luck in the shape of game wardens, Federal agents, swindlers, nature, they try fishing, working for a Yankee fruit grower, moonshining, end their hard luck odyssey right where they started...