Word: flees
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With this back of interested voters, the council has become a club for the politically-inclined. The students with only a sincere desire to serve the community (rather than themselves) quickly flee once the graft and corruption comes into view. Those who are left have a field day honing their skills at weaseling and waffling...
...interahamwe ("those who attack together"). These are young men in street clothes, armed with anything from a screwdriver to an Uzi to a machete, a dull gleam in their eyes and a whistle around their neck. If one spotted a Tutsi family emerging from hiding and trying to flee, he blew his whistle, and his comrades sealed off any escape. "If you look in their eyes," says Daniel Bellamy of the U.N. High Commission for Refugees, who has encountered these killers at numerous roadblocks in the capital, "there is something there that is not in the eyes of normal people...
...Like It tells the story of various disgruntled courtiers who flee to the mysterious Forest of Arden, some in voluntary, some in forced exile. The rustic life stands in sharp contrast to the luxury of the court; hardcore culture clash ensues. Against this background, Shakespeare relates three romances, at the level of nobility, attendants, and peasants, to indicate the essential kinship of all men. But Stratford's little boy doesn't paint a universally pleasant picture: some of Shakespeare's gloomiest assessments of humanity and its condition appear in As You Like It. This play gave us "All the world...
...many residents the new California dream is to flee the place. In a poll taken during the last week of January by the Field Institute in San Francisco, 26% of Southern Californians surveyed said they had considered moving away because of the quake, more than three times the proportion of Northern Californians harboring such thoughts after the 1989 quake."This is usually our slow period," said a Bekins Moving & Storage Co. executive. "But we're seeing a significant increase in business from people wanting to leave the area...
...extreme condition this season. "I love New England weather, I really do, but this is too much. I'm getting out of here," said Massachusetts native Mellisa Gillis `96. Despite her love of her home state, Gillis has been so overwhelmed by the winter storms that she plans to flee to the Bahamas over her spring vacation...