Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tear Drops. In Okanogan, Wash., in the midst of a wedding ceremony, the bride burst into tears and precipitously fled when Groom Deputy Sheriff Eldon Barker accidentally dropped a tear-gas bomb...
When it was not flood, it was drought. In the '30s, under scorching, cloudless skies, the fickle river had dwindled while crops withered and some 774,000 people fled the Valley's Dust Bowl...
...thousand other villagers of Wharfedale, Waldendale and the emerald green valley of Wensley were joined in their hunt by a posse of army lads equipped with walkie-talkies; at one point they thought they had him surrounded, but the murderer fled to a stretch of wild country where no man could follow...
There was the customary pre-dawn prelude of machine-gun and mortar fire. Then troops from the capital garrison at Asunción moved in. In no time at all, as revolutions go, Army strongman Lieut. Colonel Benítez Vera had fled from his Campo Grande headquarters. Box score: five killed, scores wounded. By noon, as the official communiqué said, "absolute tranquillity" again reigned over Paraguay...
Fearing the wrath of their separate employers, they fled to Switzerland by separate routes. But Casanova was waylaid by a lady, arrived a day too late. Austrian agents had done away with Henriette. On a window in her room he found scratched her fond farewell: "Adieu my love Henriette...