Word: fled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being deemed unsafe to the gunners. In the second encounter, after the Monitor had narrowly escaped being rammed, the crew in desperation used a full charge, which drove the projectile into the vitals of the Merrimac, and this ironclad never waited for another such broadside but turned and fled, leaving the little Monitor the master of the sea, and the savior of the Union...
Then Mr. Dawes administered a similar oath to the Senators alphabetically in groups of ten?all except Senator Blease, who fled the chamber, having asked the day before to be excused, since one of the House managers, Fred H. Dominick, had been his former law partner. Mr. Blease had declared...
...long-suffering "Chief Executive of China," Tuan Chi-jui, definitely ended his pretense of governing at Peking, fled precipitately to Tientsin...
...Moines, the track was sodden. They soaked the cinders in gasoline and touched a match, but it rained again. Undiscouraged, Roland Locke of the University of Nebraska, "fastest U. S. sprinter," leapt from his mark and fled to a tape 100 yards away in what the second-splitting watches said was 9.5 sec.?a magical tenth of a second less than 100 yards have ever officially been run. But there had been a brusque north wind at Locke's back. The record was doubtful. The other national feature of the meet: obliging Pole-vaulter Charles Hoff of Norway soared...
Friends of his in Kansas got word that he had reached Manhattan. Then they read how an individual in that city had held up a restaurant with a dummy pistol last week, how he had fled through a theatre crowd, how a policeman had thrown his night stick, brought the fellow down. It was Hodges. He said...