Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Injunction. In Sydney, Australia, a gunman holding up a branch of the National Bank of Australia fled without taking any money when the cashier told him, "Don't be silly...
...into the grounds of Asunción's largest high school chanting: "We will be victorious or die." The cops slammed 30 tear-gas shells into the school grounds and flogged the youths through an Indian gantlet of two rows of police, who beat the students as they fled...
...game admitted knowing Carbo or dealing with him in any way. But last July the man known as "Mr. Grey" was finally indicted by a New York grand jury for illegal matchmaking and managing fighters under the table. Carbo promptly disappeared, was caught only three weeks ago as he fled from police at his New Jersey hideout. Frankie was the picture of innocence, said he ran because "I thought it was a rubout...
Bastard Daughter. Though the Nationalist soldiers had fled, the Communists were not left without opponents. Let the Reds do their damnedest, boasted cocky Shanghailanders, we will change them before they change us. Big, brawling and unpredictable, the "bastard daughter of the West and China," proud of its reputation as the noisiest, wickedest, dirtiest and most vital city in the world, Shanghai was long accustomed to swift alternations of luck. Its quick-witted citizens viewed other Chinese as yokels. Though impressed by the discipline of the Red troops...
...onto it almost by accident: he noticed droves of big black Cadillacs and Imperials pouring into town from all directions, traced them to the place where they converged, and barged in on 60 of the most senior statesmen in U.S. organized crime. On sight of a uniform, the hoods fled through the woods like so many Br'er Rabbits with Br'er Fox hot on their heels. A few of them have never since been seen in civilized society. Those who were nabbed told pretty much the same story. Each just happened to be driving through Apalachin (from...