Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ways Sr. was not around in 1926 when Ways Jr., turned 21, fled from his philosophy major at Loyola College and his night law course at University of Maryland to the sanctuary of his father's old rival, the Baltimore Sun. By that process of osmosis known to newsmen as "learning the business," he had progressed, by the advent of World War II, from police & sundries reporter to editorial writer of foreign news and national affairs for the Philadelphia Record. In the process he had made himself a qualified political economist-a rarity among U.S. journalists...
...beery, however, Fred's guests astounded him by doing what they thought was expected of them: breaking into Are You Ready for the Judgment Day, followed by other favorite Salvation Army hymns. When silence fell, a sinner rose and quaveringly confessed. Sorrowing and defeated, the free-thinking host fled into the night...
...office since the Montreal lead was proven false, Christy stated. One located West in Grafton, and another in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Residents of a lonely dwelling in Grafton reported a stranger who was "a dead ringer for West" at the kitchen water tap last Tuesday. They said he fled on discovery. The timing of the identification in Woonsocket made it possible for the two to be the same man, Christy observed...
...Sparkling Crystals. When Napoleon fell, Henri Beyle, who had participated in the disastrous invasion of Russia, fell with him. Disgraced, penniless, the young, atheistic republican stood on a Paris sidewalk and stared at the "hideous apparition" of "fat King Louis XVIII." Henri fled to Italy...
...still cloaked the wilderness-rimmed U.S. Army airfield at Stephenville, Newfoundland. Flying conditions, however, were excellent. There was a 5,000-foot ceiling and ten-mile visibility. A steady, eight-mile flow of chill air moved across the vast runways. American Overseas Airlines' Berlin-bound DC-4 Eire fled past on its take-off with the blended snarl of its four engines reassuringly shattering the silence. Men on duty in the control tower watched it perfunctorily as it climbed and shrank from sight on its hop to Shannon, Eire...