Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer. The newsmen buzzed after him out the office door. Someone asked if he would accept the job if it were offered. Said Hoffman imperturbably: "The first thing I would do would be to phone my wife in Pasadena. She usually tells me what to do." Then he fled...
While the Arab Leaguers waited in Riyadh, the late Yahya's eldest son Prince Seif el Islam Ahmed captured the Yemenite capital of Sana. Ahmed el Wazir, who had proclaimed himself Imam after Yahya's death,, fled. Prince Ahmed, who had been his father's chosen heir all along, at last became Imam...
...their second week under Communist control, most Czechs were still numb with shock. Some nurtured a newborn hope for a new war soon. In Pilsen a Czech said to a departing American friend: "The next time you come, I hope you come in a tank." Others, by the hundreds, fled into the U.S. zone of Germany. Said one: "I never thought that Czechs would turn to Germany for refuge...
...Lose Track of Them. In May 1945, the Leader of German Women and her husband fled from Berlin. Caught in a crossfire between German and U.S. troops, she was wounded five times. They picked up the youngest child, took refuge with Princess Pauline, who said that she cared for Frau Heiszmeyer "as one would help a wounded animal...
Psychiatrists conclude that he fled Germany because he felt his isolation from his fellow Nazis growing. But plain citizens will get little help from this book in spotting psychopaths who may become leaders. Even in countries where there are still ballot boxes, political candidates do not yet throw their psychiatric case histories into the ring along with their hats...