Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When he fled to Germany, just before World War II, he took with him a Manchester show girl, whom he married, although he had left a wife in England. Paul Joseph Goebbels' propaganda machine paid him $75 a month. Adolf Hitler bestowed on him the War Merit Cross, First Class. According to his own statement, he became a naturalized German citizen. The British nicknamed him "Lord Haw-Haw" and they laughed at him. But they never forgot his taunts at Britain...
Japan was in the grip of a private black terror. The terrorists: diehard fanatics who would not acknowledge defeat. The victims: those "responsible for the ignoble surrender." The punishment: death for those who were caught, arson for those who had fled...
...remnants of more than 1,000,000 German D.P.s (displaced persons), ousted from Czechoslovakia, were drifting westward and northward. They had fled Silesia before the Red Army. Now their homes were Polish-owned, Russian-ruled. Some hitched rides-on carts, trucks, freight cars, anything that moved on wheels. Others moved gypsy-fashion in creaking covered wagons. Like 60,000 Sudetenlanders expelled with them (and like the Germans from Austria), they were the unwanted children of enforced marriages of nations, now dissolved...
...revulsion, [but] we recognized that these emotions . . . did not answer the question whether the book should or should not be published." Berlin-born (1901) Heinrich Hauser is an experienced journalist, and author of 30-odd novels and political studies (Hitler versus Germany; Battle against Time). In 1939 he fled Germany, not so much, it would seem, because he hated Hitler, but because his children were half Jewish. He wanted to write freely, and he believed that Germany was "accursed." After six years on a farm outside New York City, Hauser still fears that Germany is accursed, but feels an "irresistible...
...Gedye stopped off in Istanbul-and promptly vanished from newsprint. The spotlight touched him briefly in 1942 when Turkish police arrested him, and the German press howled that he had been plotting the assassination of Franz von Papen. What he calls "confidential" methods got him out of jail; he fled to Jerusalem, and there shouted a terse "nonsense" at the charges. Then the spotlight flickered...