Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The majority was thin and feeble, far short of a real majority of the whole 627-man Assembly. Six ex-Premiers took refuge in abstention; every party except the Communists split. But by forcing the Assembly to a decision, Mendes had done what three predecessors had not dared do. He...
Former Premier Antoine Pinay declared that he, too, would abstain. So did Reynaud. Suddenly, the move to take refuge on the sidelines of abstention gained momentum. "Elections are only 18 months off," explained one observer. "If, by then, rearming Germany still worries Frenchmen, the abstainers can say, 'Don'...
In the past, when the routine at Finca Vigia grew too distracting, Hemingway found escape along grand avenues-a return to the plains below Tanganyika's Kilimanjaro or another trip to Venice, or a nightclub-and-museum-crawling trip to New York. But for the battered and mellowing Hemingway...
Long Arm. In Invercargill, New Zealand, Kenneth Blackmore, 19, escaped from prison, fled 140 miles to Dunedin, took refuge in a tree, discovered too late that he was in the backyard of Sergeant Alex McRae, the police officer who had been detailed to look for him.
The witness is frightened, Griswold said, "by the TV cameras and lights, by the noise and confusion, and especially by the excesses which he sees before him . . . In this situation, he takes refuge in the Fifth Amendment."