Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before senators talking of "theft" of union funds, the president of the powerful International Teamsters Union had repeatedly sought refuge behind the Fifth Amendment on all sorts of questions.
Huston soon puts a stop to this sort of fiddle-faddle. All at once enemy troops arrive, and the nun and the marine are forced to take refuge in a tiny cave. To make things more explicit, the nun comes down with a fever, and the marine is forced to...
The Wapshots are a once-virile New England family rapidly outliving both their affluence and influence. Like the town of St. Botolphs where they live, they once drew their power from the sea. Time was when Wapshot boys got their baptism of life by sailing round the Horn, their baptism...
At last count there were exactly 27 whooping cranes left in the world: one at the San Antonio zoo, two at the New Orleans zoo and 24 at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge on Texas' Gulf Coast. If the cranes would just stay at safe, secluded Aransas, they might...
But neither Gunnar nor any other ablebodied Swede would consider quitting the Vasa Run until legs or lungs gave out. For the history of the race runs all the way back to the start of Sweden's independence. It began in greater discouragement than Gunnar or his competitors ever...