Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distant snowy peaks of the Himalayas. A line of Tibetan officials bowed to Nehru, presented him with an armload of ceremonial white scarves. The curtains parted in the main doorway, and out stepped the smiling Dalai Lama for his first meeting with Nehru since the God-King of Tibet fled the Red Chinese reconquest of his homeland (TIME, April 13). "How are you?" asked Nehru. Answered the Dalai Lama in his best English: "I am quite nice...
...been instigated by "Indian expansionists" and "foreign imperialists" and bluntly named Nehru's daughter Indira, 41, and his sister Madame Pandit, 58, as co-conspirators with the Tibetan "reactionaries." Stubbornly, the Reds repeated the big lie that the God-King's statement in India that he had fled Tibet of his own volition and his denouncement of the Reds for treaty breaking were "fabrications" by imperialist intriguers...
...free and Salazar's men count the votes, Delgado polled almost one-fourth of the votes, and he rallied the biggest electoral crowds in years. After the elections, Delgado lost his job as director of civil aviation. In January, fearing he was about to be arrested, he fled to the Brazilian embassy. Though Salazar contemptuously let it be known that Delgado was in no danger, Delgado would not leave without a written safe-conduct pass. Last week's complicated ritual at the airport resulted from a compromise worked out by a Brazilian newspaperman so that neither Delgado...
Journey to Safety. As the Dalai Lama and his escort fled by night and hid by day in lamaseries, villages and Khamba encampments, the furious Red Chinese boasted that they had put down the three-day revolt in Lhasa that had served to cover the God-King's escape. Point-blank artillery fire drove diehard lamas from the Norbulingka, summer palace on the city's outskirts. Red infantrymen surged into the vast warrens of the Potala winter palace, rounded up defiant monks in narrow passages and dark rooms where flickering butter lamps made Tibet's grotesque gods...
...shut the door behind himself and fled down the stairs, across the courtyard, and up the stairs to his own room. He at for a moment in an armchair and then went to the bathroom...