Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joyce was an obscure fascist bully boy in 1939 when he fled England, a week before war began. He took with him a quantity of his wife's household goods, the funds of his National Socialist League and a Manchester show girl. During the sad days of Dunkirk and Norway, the horrors of the blitz and the better days that followed, Britons listened with amusement to Joyce's silken sarcasm and twisted truth on the German radio. They often noted his plea: "To some I may seem a traitor, but hear...
Recently, the editor and part owner of a thriving Latin American newspaper arrived for a conducted tour of the U.S. For a week he stood the punishment. Then he fled to Manhattan and the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria. To a friend he cried...
...Germans of the Middle Army Group in Czechoslovakia and northern Austria ignored surrender orders. Under command of Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner (wanted by the Russians as a war criminal) and Colonel General Otto Woehler, the Wehrmacht stumbled blindly on, fought, then despairingly submitted or fled. By week's end the Russians had rounded up 1,230,000. Still at liberty were Schörner and Woehler...
...cart, he made his way the twelve miles into Rangoon, there found a Union Jack flying over a jail where 1,400 British, U.S. and Indian war prisoners were quartered. The Japanese, who had occupied the big Burmese port since the fourth month of the Pacific war, had fled...
...Germans tried only to get away. Near Ferrara they abandoned more than 1,000 fuel-starved motor vehicles and fled on foot. At other places they harnessed up horses, oxen, cows and even human beings to move heavy equipment...