Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they were obliged to fight fellow-Kwangtungese. At this the Kwangtung Army fell completely apart. Dozens of Chen's chief officers, civil officials, his entire Cantonese air force of 60 planes, two torpedo boats and even the man he had picked for president of an independent Southwest Government fled the province. Wired one officer to dismayed General Chen: "Despite the danger of having my heart dissected and my eyes gouged out by you, I hereby dare to send you this final word of my loyalty. Alas, as I hold my pen, how fast the tears stream down my cheeks...
...sweetheart at Vadin. They poisoned his mind against her. until in the shameful abandon of defeat he made up a song slandering her. Vigdis had been willing to marry him until she heard" it. When she agreed to a last meeting, turned Ljot away forever, he raped her and fled. She bore his child. Gunnar's enemies taunted him with his disgrace, killed him and burned his house...
...Vigdis fled with the baby, fell in with robbers, found protection at Olav's Christian court. To Ljot she said: "May you have the worst of deaths-and live long and miserably-you and all you hold dear. And may you see your children die most wretchedly before your eyes...
...January 1816 there debarked at Charleston, S. C. a French fencing master who said his name was Peter Stuart Ney. From Georgetown he fled to Brownsville three years later when some French refugees insisted he was France's late, great Marshal. In the next few years he wandered from town to town in North Carolina and Virginia teaching school. Years later one of his pupils told how he had fainted on reading a newspaper report of Napoleon's death at St. Helena. Found next day with his throat ineffectively slashed, he explained: "With the death of Napoleon...
...Ethiopia. He was bidden to Buckingham Palace and decorated by His Majesty with the Order of Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire for having withstood a hot siege of the British Legation by Ethiopians who proved themselves savages of the most ferocious type as soon as their Emperor fled his country (TIME...