Word: fled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumors naturally fled about that M. Briand and Herr Stresemann had been dickering over the complete evacuation of the Rhineland. Well plied with questions as to whether this was the case, M. Briand concealed his thoughts loquaciously...
...larger air currents in which the spiral motion occurs, as an eddy is carried down a brook.) In England, townsfolk living north and west of London scrambled from their beds before dawn, panic-stricken by sounds of falling crockery and chimney pots. Through the lanes of Duddleston fled a yokel in a nightshirt screaming, "The end of the world has come!" In Hereford, the town clock struck thrice though it was really five o'clock. At Stratford-on-Avon, U. S. tourists clutched their passports and pocketbooks; the "sure and firm set earth" was trembling violently with the roar...
Australian policemen struggled with, then fled from, a mob of 75,000 women fainting, men shoving and grunting, when Pilot Alan Cobham hove in sight last week over Melbourne, at the end of his flight in a seaplane from England. The ovation far outdid the holiday mood indulged in last fortnight by Port Darwin, Cobham's first point of contact with the kangaroo continent (TIME, Aug. 16). The motors of his big De Havilland ship were examined, found in flawless condition after a month and a half of droning through all temperatures, humidities and aridities, from the English Channel...
...wage fair battle, but disguised in many shapes their malice, plotting curiously to undo her. Now an army of horsemen came riding against her breast, with plumes blown back and dark flanks swelling in a line; and now a thing like a wolf reared over her and fled...
...Danube, 40,000 men, with 10,000 horses and wagons, strove frantically to strengthen dikes and dams, to no avail. Dams burst. Dikes spouted. The Bačka region, above Belgrade, one of Europe's richest granaries, became a broad lake. Tens of thousands of city dwellers fled for higher land...