Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yugoslavs to escape Rankovic's net in the present crisis was Lajos Dudas, a young Communist deputy who fled last week across the Hungarian border at Subotica, He said: "I was on the point of being arrested because I refused to repudiate the [anti-Tito] resolution of the Cominform...
...Loony Now? By midweek Pierrot and René had knocked over a suburban bar (for about $30) and staged at least two other holdups. Amid confident press speculation that they had probably fled to the country until the heat was off, the two, posing as detectives, then called at the fashionable Neuilly apartment of Joseph de Bisschop, a transport company executive, and walked out with 100,000 francs (about $300) in cash and some $1,400 worth of jewelry...
...covered with worthless medals of tin, cork, broken combs, and tiny crutches. Poleo's trees are dead, his earth pocked and parched, his cities mere ruins and rubble. In some paintings, there are no signs of life at all-only tiny ladders down which the human race has fled to escape an atomic...
Dawn & Lightning. Denounced by Hitler as the most degenerate of degenerate artists, Kokoschka fled from Prague to London. Now, though he keeps his flat in London, he prefers to wander from city to city, "an immensely free citizen of the world," painting as the dawn breaks around him, or on-stormy nights when the lightning plays. Last week, two of his latest works were on display in a Manhattan gallery. They were portraits, one of a bemused art collector, the other of a wistful clown, standing against a gaudy carnival background, gazing over the head of an absurd little...
...miles along the Columbia's lower reaches, families fled their homes. Under the water's relentless weight, dikes became soggy, began to leak in small treacherous rivulets. Downstream from Portland, the dike protecting Woodland (Wash.) broke. Four days later the river cracked the Johns Dike at Clatskenie. At Portland, the backed-up waters of the Willamette River topped the retaining walls, flooded the railroad station and the airport. Trucks and bulldozers worked night & day; troops and volunteers sandbagged every damp spot...