Ms. Walls never learned how to read or write, and hauled cotton until she was 13, when, she said, she married to escape the fields.
"Escaping the field" [ 4] or closure of relationships that have been built over time requires thought.
Whether we're escaping the fields, the factory, or the family basement--no matter.
No literary butler can ever quite escape the gravitational field of Wodehouse's shimmering Reginald, gentleman's gentleman par excellence, saviour, so often, of Bertie Wooster's imperilled bacon.
All of which is a necessarily elaborate way of saying that Brian Selznick's new book, "Wonderstruck" — engrossing, intelligent, beautifully engineered and expertly told both in word and image — cannot entirely escape the force field or expectations set up by his 2008 Caldecott winner, "The Invention of Hugo Cabret".
They settled in tattered apartment buildings in the working-class suburbs of northern Kentucky, thrilled to find fast-food jobs and to live among others who had managed to escape the parched fields back home in Mauritania.
Eventually it will gain enough energy to escape the magnetic fields and shoot off into space as a cosmic ray.
Reports spoke of Tigers opening fire on Tamil civilians who tried to escape the killing fields and test their luck with the government forces.
Back in the 1980s, due to the civil war in El Salvador, the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua and Contra counter-revolutionary guerrillas based in southern Honduras, and the oppressive military regimes in Guatemala, thousands of Central Americans fled to the United States to escape the killing fields.
In order to form, a new enamel knot must escape the inhibitory fields surrounding other enamel knots before crown components become spatially fixed as morphogenesis ceases.
