Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...villagers had fled or been carried away by the retreating guerrillas except crippled, 50-year-old Katina Kitsiki. Asked if she had seen Markos there, Katina replied: "He was here, but no one saw him. The sun did not shine on him by day, nor the moon at night...
When Arnulfo Arias fled Panama for Costa Rica, crying that he had been robbed of the presidency (TIME, Aug. 16), Panama's President Enrique A. Jimenez was worried. He rushed troops to the northern border, and asked Neighbor Jose Figueres not to let Arnulfo use Costa Rica as a base for an armed comeback. Figueres promised. Last week, the Costa Rican government gave Arnulfo 24 hours to get out of the country...
...conflict in Palestine, land of refuge for Jews, had created a refugee problem of its own. Panic-stricken over Israeli military successes, 300,000 Arabs had fled from their Palestine homes. With no food and few possessions of their own, they now live in refugee camps among Arab neighbors. Arab governments want to send them back...
...nearly three years, Tildy sat tight while the Communists whittled away at his Smallholders Party, reducing it from the largest in Hungary to an impotent remnant. When Nagy fled, both Tildy and Chornoky helped keep the lid on the indignation of bewildered Smallholders...
...hollow, blanketed with yellow kunai grass. At the bottom were three dilapidated board shacks, before one of which a woman puttered over her morning chores. As Stafford led the squad crawling down into the hollow, the woman glanced up and shrieked. Three armed men burst from the house and fled for an opposite hill...