Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During the war, Kreutzberg danced a few recitals in his native Austria, but mainly, he says, tried to keep out of sight: "I just appeared, then disappeared." The Germans finally put him in uniform-he spent a year swabbing hospital floors in Italy. When he saw a chance, he fled, and surrendered to the U.S. Army. After three months in prison camp, he was released. He feels he has lost time to make up, and a good many things yet to say in his character dancing. Says Kreutzberg: "I am a very sad person, a very funny person...
Released on ball after an arrest in the University town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, several of the men fled to the home of the Presbyterian minister with two carloads of angry cab drivers behind them...
Fourteen days after his disappearance in Poland (TIME, Nov. 3), Polish Peasant Party Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk turned up in Britain. He had spent 28 months opposing Poland's Communist-run minority, finally fled in fear of his life...
Mikolajczyk was a Pole who believed in freedom of thought, press, political opinion. He fought, then fled the Nazis in 1939; returned in 1945 when U.S. and British pressure resulted in Stalin ordering the Moscow-created Polish provisional government to make a place for him. A rigged election (TIME, Jan. 27) had reduced Mikolajczyk and his party to a mere political shadow...
...followers fell upon the offices of Mikolajczyk's party newspaper, Gazeta Ludowa. They took over, Wycech boasted, "not by force, but by revolutionary methods." The result was that Mikolajczyk's own paper was the only one in Warsaw to announce flatly that he had "shamelessly and mysteriously" fled the country...