Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Sulzberger put a firm red dot over the words Spokane Spokesman-Review in the copyright permission footnote, handed the story in to the copy desk 24 hours late and fled. Several days later an office boy brought to her desk a prime example of the perils of inaccuracy. It was a clipping from Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker, which had picked up TIME'S Radio story, complete with King's verse. There was no acknowledgement of copyright permission. Further, the Worker had made one of journalism's most painful errors : it had disinterred Stoddard King...
...with two flat-bottomed boats known as currachs or cots) rescued householders from upper-story windows, watchers on the hills knelt in the downpour and recited the Rosary. Confessionals and prayer-stools floated out of church doors. On the Galtee slopes above Tipperary, sheep, terrified by the mountain torrents, fled to the valley, leaving their lambs to perish. It had never happened before...
...biggest fish who got away. Belgium's arch-collaborator fled the country in the last month of the war, in a plane which crashed in Franco Spain. After he had been interned for 15 months, the Spanish Government announced that he had mysteriously escaped. He is now believed to be either in South America or still in Spain...
Drzewieski, a noted Polish educator, fled his country before the Nazi advance, but continued his educational work in exile. A former Vice-President of the Executive Committee of the Preparatory Commission of UNESCO, he has recently been elected Reconstruction and Rehabilitation director. He is currently in the United States on a brief tour...
...deserts) were then fertile, supporting a thick population of hunters and their prey-aurochs, oryx, etc. Among these hunters lived the progenitors of one of those broken bodies on the rock ledges of time-the Egyptiac civilization. Later, the ice retreated. The plains turned into deserts. The game fled. The hunters, too, had to retreat...