Word: fled
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Sergeant's Surprise. With Company M of the 12th Infantry, Private Krueger took part in a 25-mile advance from Angeles to Tarlac, Aguinaldo's capital. But Aguinaldo had fled, and the 12th pursued him vainly all the way through Luzon's central plain to Dagupan on Lingayen Gulf. To the Madison Courier Krueger wrote excellent descriptions of the campaign, explaining: "Undoubtedly you see a good deal written about . . . the Philippines, but I thought, although many professors may have their theories about these islands, 'a fool here knows more than six wise men at home...
Died. Baroness Robert de Rothschild, 58, chic, platinum-haired, prewar Paris socialite, wife of international banker Baron Robert de Rothschild; after long illness; in Manhattan. Before the Nazis took Paris in 1940, the De Rothschilds abandoned their famed Avenue Marigny town house, fled to the U.S. with their two daughters (two sons, both lieutenants in the French Army, are prisoners...
...artillery into the Bastogne pocket. Thirteen battalions of big field guns laid down a two-hour barrage. The paratroopers heard German wounded screaming in the woods. Of 28 attacking German tanks, 21 were knocked out by artillery, three more by U.S. tanks and tank destroyers. The other four fled...
...cellars not used as forts, Budapest's civilians huddled, their normal numbers of 1,000,000 swollen to perhaps 2,000,000 by refugees who had fled the war-ravaged countryside expecting to find safety in the city. They were dying by hundreds...
...Malvinas, as Argentina calls the Falkland Islands, appear on Argentine maps and stamps as Argentine territory. A touching Argentine poem describes the sadness of an emigré penguin which fled to Argentina after Britain took the Falklands...