Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most active campaign, lost even more ground, getting only 2.8% of the Bavarian total, and 7.9% in Hesse; 2) the center parties (Social Democrats, Christian Democrats) lost heavily to the rightists. Two explanations were offered. In Frankfurt, Metalworker Gustav Schmidt explained: "The city is full of people who have fled from the Soviet zone. After talking with them, I voted as far right as I could get." Said a Wiesbaden Hausfrau: "We are fed up with socialization. We know that it means bureaucracy. Our reconstruction would have moved much faster if it had not been snarled up by all this...
Remembered Exile. All the Fugitives except Davidson have long since fled Vanderbilt and the South, but some are still favorably remembered-and particularly John Crowe Ransom. Last week Ransom, now a professor at Ohio's little Kenyon College (and editor of the Kenyon Review), celebrated his 60th birthday. In his honor, the Sewanee Review, the oldest of U.S. literary quarterlies, has devoted its entire forthcoming summer number to an estimate of Ransom as poet, critic and teacher...
...Arabs who lived there, many had fled to safety even before the attack started. As the panicky evacuation began during the Jewish assault, the remaining thousands gathered what few belongings they could carry. Lashed on by the mortar barrage, more than a thousand men, women & children hammered at the No. 3 gate of the British-controlled port area to seek safety. Royal Marine guards finally let them on to the docks...
...sewing machine were among the treasures. A three-year-old hugged his pet pigeon. One woman brought a battered aluminum chamberpot. Hour after hour they sat, waiting for barges, British landing craft and other odd boats now doing ferry service across the blue bay to Acre." Other thousands fled to the Arab-held hills near Nablus...
...Jews (two-thirds Irgun, one-third Stern Gang) swept into the village of Deir Yesin at dawn, blew up its huts with demolition charges. More than 200 Arabs, half of them women & children, died in the slaughter. The rest of the village's 700 dwellers surrendered or fled to caves in the nearby hills. For the first time, the Irgun and Stern terrorists were fighting against Arabs as a tactical force. While the Zionist General Council was accepting the Irgun's offer to serve under general Haganah direction, the Jewish Agency denounced the terrorists for the Deir Yesin...