Word: flees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...away with, while at other, moments she demonstrates the lack of perspective characteristic of an adolescent on a hormonal jag. Nonetheless, this flaw does not severely impede the novel, which becomes a wild string of events culminating in a furiously paced race through Mexico as Jem and Jezebel flee home and family for the jungle estate where Jem's mother was born...
...region and complains loudly that Washington's military embrace has failed to bring the kind of economic aid that has been given to El Salvador, Honduras' traditional enemy. Hondurans worry about a collapse of the contra campaign that would cause all 12,000 or so rebels to flee Nicaragua and wander through their country in bands, toting American arms. Already, the country is feeling the strain of serving as a haven for Nicaraguan youths who flee the Sandinista military draft and arrive penniless in Honduras. Fundamentally, though, Honduras has cast its lot with the U.S. One of its most insistent...
...strain of being a Black writer in a white world precisely because he was not a tiger. He never expected a revolutoin. He knew that no amount of marching in the street or breaking storefront windows was going to complete the process of equal rights. He did not flee America out if some fawning, unconscious love for white European, as Cleaver claimed, but rather because he knew change was not going to come quickly and he didn't want to be destroyed by the disappointment that inevitably followed the hope of the sixties...
...have masterminded the murders of DEA Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar and a Mexican pilot who frequently flew for the agency; their badly beaten bodies were found in central Mexico last month. That incident severely strained U.S.-Mexican relations as U.S. officials accused Mexican authorities of helping Caro Quintero flee the country. At week's end El Chapo was flown to Mexico, where the U.S. hoped he would be prosecuted...
...attempting to subdue the aggressor, particularly one with a knife or gun. The kind of resistance that has the best chance of success, explains Richard Block, a sociologist at Loyola University of Chicago, who conducted the study, is to attract the attention of possible rescuers or to try to flee. Block predicts that if too many citizens take up arms, criminals will respond by adding to their own weaponry or by selecting more vulnerable victims, such as defenseless older women...