Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take refuge in a brick church on the monastery grounds. As in Rwanda two years ago, the Hutu had a plan, recalls French Brother Victor Bordeau, 60, who had been hearing rumors of an attack for days: "First they would kill the Tutsi brothers, then attack the Tutsi refugees. Then drive the rest out of Zaire...
Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo) is the champion of the geeks at Ben Franklin Junior High school in a New Jersey suburb--even the other nerds call her by her inevitable moniker "wiener dog." Home is no refuge for Dawn. Her mother (Angela Pietropinto), presumably the same woman who inflicts pink...
The two met in 1968, when both worked for Arkansas Senator William Fulbright. Twelve years later, after losing his first re-election bid for Governor, Clinton found refuge in Lindsey's law firm and plotted a comeback. When Clinton launched his unlikely bid to unseat George Bush in 1991, Lindsey...
Gates said he chose to become an academic over the objections of his parents, who wanted their son to be a doctor or lawyer, because books and the pursuit of knowledge provided a refuge from racism.
Murray Kempton said the task of editorial writers is to come down out of the hills after the battle is over to shoot the wounded. Is it the job of jackboot reporters in this country to conduct house-to-house searches, ransacking private lives for every disreputable little secret, driving...