Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...range in age from 19 to 26, have been studying in DP camps. Most of them had fled their countries when the Communists took over, the three Czechs all crossing the border illegally after the coup last spring...
...Germans, now he fights the Communists. A veteran of two years' warfare against the Red guerrillas, he has seen action at Konitsa, in Epirus, in the Grammos mountains, in the Peloponnesus. He does not know what became of his family; like hundreds & thousands of other Greeks, they fled from Red terror. They may be in a refugee camp; they may be dead. Some day, though he cannot imagine when, Georgios hopes to return to his native village, marry and settle down. Like most of his comrades in the army, he pins his hopes on American aid, and wishes there...
...fled the U. S. government bond last week, Gerhart Eisler would probably have addressed a John Reed Club audience this week, it was learned yesterday...
When fighting broke out in Shanghai and Reischauer was killed in a bombing, Miss Maginnis fled to Manila, where she shared the city's worst earthquake in 30 years. When she reached Kobe, she decided the year was not a propitious one for her art study and relinquished the fellowship...
...been for the Nazis, Villon might never have done so well as an artist. With his wife, he fled Paris a jump ahead of the German army in 1940 and spent three disconsolate months near Toulouse. There he did the first landscapes of his career-neatly representational sketches that might have been made by an architect on vacation. Then he wandered back to Paris and spent the rest of the war years turning out cubist paintings based on his landscape sketches...