Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Hedwig Pinkus Ehrlich, 84, tiny, unassuming wife of the late great German bacteriologist Dr. Paul Ehrlich, whose discovery of salvarsan or 606 ("The Magic Bullet") was a major landmark in combating syphilis; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Frau Ehrlich fled Germany...
...year-old boy, returning to his native Ningpo after his Shanghai employer had fled the country, had just fallen asleep in a crowded passageway. Suddenly the deck shot from under him, hurling him against a bulkhead, and an explosion roared through the ship. His first thought was "Communists" and he hid with his blanket over his head; but almost instantly he felt water rushing in. Although his leg was broken by the explosion, he managed to fight through the blackness to reach the top deck...
...William E. McDuffie, announced: "It is our belief that they [the Klan] are not guilty of shooting Mallard." But he gave no basis to reporters for charging Mrs. Mallard. Dumfounded and hysterical, the widow screamed again that men in white robes had killed her husband. Released without bond, she fled terror-stricken into the woods, shivered all night in a rainstorm, finally found sanctuary with Savannah friends...
Gallegos was held under protective custody in the Escuela Militar; other prominent Acción Democratistas fled to foreign embassies for sanctuary. Betancourt went into hiding. But the vast majority of the party's politicians and labor leaders were clapped into jail. Union funds were seized by the army. Newspapers were ordered to hew strictly to the army's line, and an almost continuous radio barrage of pro-junta propaganda helped to sell the coup to the country...
...before nightfall. A gang of Communists surrounded a police car, tried to set fire to it. The gardes started shooting. Some fired in the air, but one or two shot blindly into the fog. By direct hit or ricochet, four men were wounded. Panic seized the Communists and they fled...