Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight. Four or five men closed in on him. He was knocked down and his coat pulled over his head. He got to his feet and grabbed one of his attackers by the ear. Others slugged him fore & aft. Cameramen snapped these early stages of the battle, then fled before their plates were seized...
Governor Browning never got to the conference of Southern Governors. Next day. besieged by politicians, he fled back to Tennessee. At Knoxville, his first stop, he was of course reminded that Knoxville's Captain A. Mitchell Long, lawyer and politician, would make a fine Senator. The newspapers told him that Nashville's Albert H. Roberts, ex-Governor of Tennessee, had publicly proposed himself for the job. Many others pressed claims privately. At week's end Senator Bachman's sudden taking off was mourned by no one more than Governor Gordon Browning...
...Radio Station WEEI to talk about bees, took along a hive of 30,000 bees for sound effect. Nervous after his microphone ordeal, he struck the hive against a studio door, dropped it. Out with a horrid hum swarmed all 30,000 bees. While spectators and staff members fled, the beeman valiantly scooped his charges back into the studio with bare bands, slammed the door...
...bandit's unnoticed companion, Robert Suhay, began to fire. Another bullet struck him in the chest, two in the legs. He crumpled. An innocent bystander, hit in the foot, flopped under a writing table beside a scared little Negro woman. Twenty rounds were exchanged before the two bandits fled, vanished...
...parked car, recognized its five occupants as men who had been trying to see him about Ford labor problems. One of them yelled "Stop!" Mr. Bennett did not stop until the men had given chase, rammed their car into the side of his. Then they stopped too, but fled when the uninjured Ford chief waved his revolver. Last week Mr. Bennett pooh-poohed reports that the "boys" were trying to kill him, said he had no intention of pressing charges against them...