Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most sacrosanct doctrine in biology had been called in question. The two biological revolutionists who did it-Drs. Sol Spiegelman and Martin D. Kamen of Washington University, St. Louis-fled home from Manhattan this week, hotly pursued by biological tories. They had attacked the Divine Right of Genes...
Unmasked. In York, Pa., a lone masked thief waited impatiently for bar-owner Isaac Hulshart to hand over the contents of the cash register, suddenly whipped off his mask, dropped his gun and fled, crying: "You take these. I'm too nervous...
...READ WITH INTEREST ARTICLE IN TIME DEC. 23 ABOUT INDONESIA. WHILE APPRECIATING ELABORATE INFORMATION IT GIVES I FEEL BOUND FOR SAKE OF FAIRNESS . . . TO POINT OUT [A STATEMENT] NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FACTS. YOU STATE THATGOVERNOR GENERAL VAN STARKENBORGH STACHOUWER FLED TO AUSTRALIA WHEREAS UPON HIS PROPOSAL HE AND HIS FAMILY AS WELL AS 15,000 OTHER DUTCH OFFICIALS IN THE FACE OF CERTAIN JAPANESE INVASION REMAINED AT THEIR POSTS, WERE TAKEN PRISONERS BY THE JAPANESE AND SUFFERED ALL CRUELTIES AND INDIGNITIES OF JAPANESE INTERNMENT. GOVERNOR GENERAL STARKENBORGH HIMSELF SHARED CAPTIVITY AND HUMILIATION IN SAME CAMP WITH GENERAL WAINWRIGHT...
Died. Max Warburg, 79, famed international Hamburg banker, brother of Manhattan bankers Paul and Felix Warburg; after long illness; in Manhattan. Though a Jew, he remained in his homeland after Hitler rose to power, devoted himself to aiding and rescuing Jews marked for persecution, finally in 1939 fled to the U.S., in 1944 became a U.S. citizen...
...Dutch air force was destroyed. Thereafter, it would have been pointless, militarily, for the Dutch Army to attempt resistance. To the Indonesians, however, the Army was the symbol of Dutch rule. When the Army did not fight and Dutch Governor General A. W. L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer* fled to Australia, the Indonesians lost all respect for the Dutch. Millions of Indonesians swallowed the Jap slogan "Asia for the Asiatics...