Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied armed forces had done their job too well. All of Cologne's famed hotels, her great banks, office and municipal buildings and most of her homes were gone. Of the prewar population of nearly 800,000 citizens, M.G. estimated that all but about 100,000 had fled. Last week their introduction to the American way began...
...German soldiers killed. Then, warily, some of the Yanks ran onto the bridge. There was an explosion. A guard had touched off one of the charges. But it did little damage. More Americans raced on, seized two Germans on the bridge. Then the Americans were across. A few Germans fled to a tunnel piercing a hill. A few surrendered...
...Meiktila British and U.S. airmen quickly put the airfields to their own uses. Tanks ranged over good roads to prevent reinforcements coming up from Rangoon. At Akyab, ruined as a port when the Japs fled nine weeks ago, Allied ships were unloading...
...life. While the judges deliberated, Roatta's weak heart fluttered. He was allowed to rest in a military hospital. Suddenly one night the hospital's lights went out. An hour later they came on again. But for Mario Roatta it was Guadalajara all over again. He had fled...
...spring of 1940, when chic society disintegrated at the approaching threat of German boots, Trinity's Dean Frederick W. Beekman fled to the U.S. Organist Whipp, left in charge, moved into the deanery to run the church. He held services for the few remaining parishioners (he could not perform Holy Communion), baptized six children, buried 40 Americans, visited and comforted the sick...