Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four, hollow-eyed little Pessel Fachler weighed only 27 pounds. Born in Siberia, to which her Polish parents had fled to escape the Nazis, Pessel had been harried across Europe with her mother and grandmothers, ended up at war's end in a Berlin refugee camp. Half-starved and bloated with edema, her puny body had withstood pneumonia, whooping cough, heart disease and tuberculosis...
...various foreign posts (now in London), is too remote from Yemen to be a strong contender for the couch. Brother Hussein is amiable and popular, but used to be jailed now & then by his father for drinking bouts, is now in retirement on a farm. The eighth son, Ibrahim, fled from Yemen to British Aden a year ago after an unsuccessful attempt to unseat his father. He gave up the title Sword of Islam, called himself Saif el Hag (Sword of Truth...
Doutis said his fiancee's 90-year-old grandfather had been beaten to death; she herself had fled from her village, and her dowry was seized. This was an important matter, because it is tough to marry when there is no dowry...
Chicago's jazz fans last week were in blue heaven. After years of moaning that all their local boys had fled to the fleshpots of two coasts for fame & fortune, the jazzbos had all come home to blow...
...threatened with severe penalties. In Athens some 500 Communists were already under arrest as a result of an episode three weeks ago when a policeman saw three men get out of a taxi carrying a suspicious cloth bag. When he tried to question them, they shot him dead, then fled through the ruins at the base of the Acropolis. (The cloth bag, it turned out, contained arms.) One of the three, a Communist hatchetman named Stamatis Bitsikas, was caught, broke down under interrogation and confessed a Red plot to murder Stylianos Gonatas, head of the National Liberal Party...