Word: flees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EARLY NEXT MONTH Lord Soames will leave Zimbabwe after the official ceremonies of decolonization. His departure will not be a scramble to a helicopter, a flee from the indignation of Zimbabweans. It will probably be a graceful withdrawal with a member of the royal family, the closing of the book of Britain's direct political control and colonization of southern Africa, and the end of the spirit of noblesse oblige and paternalism with which the British settled Rhodesia and negotiated with Zimbabwe's black leaders. This noblesse oblige underlies South Africa's apartheid and is an element of racism throughout...
...Monterey Park, Joanna Dressier was packing suitcases to flee when she heard a thud. Said she: "I looked outside and saw my husband and two friends being pushed by the mud against and underneath a car. I couldn't get the front door open, so I bashed a window. I threw my dogs out, then I jumped out." Her husband and friends survived, but her house was badly damaged. Ray Linton, another Monterey Park resident, salvaged little more than a stereo, a couple of cans of honey and some dented pans from his house, which collapsed. For drinking water...
...International Hotel, both at New York's Kennedy International Airport; an elegant suite at Philadelphia's Barclay Hotel; a condominium in the Regency Towers, along the seashore in Ventnor, N.J. For flexibility, another sheik was created, Yasser Habib. He claimed that he might one day have to flee his home country and seek asylum in the U.S. That asylum could be provided if a member of Congress would introduce a private bill, granting him special status to bypass normal immigration procedures. The sheik would, of course, generously reward any legislator willing to sponsor such legislation. (In past years...
Judge Kelleher denied Boyce's plea, and the prisoner decided to take matters into his own hands once again. He had kept himself in excellent condition-a regimen of ten miles a day on the track, weight training and yoga-to be fit enough to flee through the rough, hilly terrain outside the prison. In addition, he must have been aware that Lompoc was in the process of converting to its new maximum security status. Within two months officials will install a sophisticated $67,000 alarm system along the inner fence that will sense the slightest pressure and would...
...labored as a field hand alongside migrant workers; he climbed mountains to rebuild legs weakened by polio. It was on these hikes that Douglas developed a love for the wilderness that he would later celebrate with dozens of books on travel and wildlife. Throughout his career, he would flee the U.S. capital to return to the Western mountains or explore remote areas of the world from the high Himalayas to the Dead...