Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They fled-Nano, Romana, the sister and the brother-to the lowlands of Shantol, then to the tiny village of Malabo. The Japs were always close behind; sometimes Romana crawled along the ground under sniper fire to beg or steal food. She burned out the serial numbers stamped on Nano's army pants, finally got him a forged birth certificate which enabled him to pose as a Spanish farmer who had come to the Philippines before the war. After that life was easier; they could go back to Manila...
...clerk who had fled reappeared and went pensively back into the shop...
Since the end of World War II, Franco had been using in his Spanish Foreign Legion thousands of German soldiers and Gestapo personnel who fled from France after the German surrender. But the guerrillas were protected by geography and their own hard-won battle skill...
Publisher Raul Damonte Taborda fled to Uruguay. Then his mother-in-law and the paper's chief owner, Señora Salvadora Medina Onrubia de Botana, gave up the battle, let pro-Perón federal officials take over. Last week Señora Botana and the federals celebrated the surrender-by toasting...
Whether Berlin's great conductor Dr. Wilhelm Furtwängler was or was not a Nazi hardly seemed worth arguing. Goring gave him the highest Government job held by a musician, that of Nazi Staatsrat (State Councilor) of Prussia. When he fled Germany to Switzerland last February, the Zurich Municipal Council canceled two sold-out concerts he was sched uled to lead. Three days later, Furtwängler conducted in the Swiss industrial town of Winterthur, and the fire department had to turn hoses on 4,000 workers demon strating outside the hall. Since then, Furtwängler...