Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chhuon fled in the night into the jungles in his under-sarong. Last week, acting on another tip, Sihanouk's forces captured him. Shortly afterward the government announced that Dap Chhuon had died "of injuries," but had made "important revelations" first to his captors...
...priority has been given to doing something about the country's 12 million refugees who fled India to end up jobless in wretched slums. Ayub ordered new housing projects; with a stroke of the pen his Rehabilitation Minister gave permanent title to 6,600,000 acres in the Punjab to 1,400,000 refugees. The new program cuts two ways. Under the law, the refugees can lay claim to land with the same value as that which they left behind. Now faced with the threat of prison for filing false claims, 5,500 refugees have decided to withdraw...
...destined to win the Grail through his design for a festival pavilion is of a different, tougher breed. Marko Zuckerman's eyes speak, "Mongol-wise," of historic rapacity and plunder. His past is a mystery; all that is known of him is that he fled Hungary after World War II, showed up briefly in Paris with a big wad of money, then settled in Britain to amass more...
...Several veteran Pantagraph newsmen searched page 3 for the story, rebuked Starzel for failing to run it. The backward progress of another bank-robbery story was a capsule of the Pantagraph policy. Since the rifled bank lay outside Pantagraph territory, the news broke on Page One; as the bandits fled toward Bloomington the story fled to page 2 (area news); when police trapped the culprits in Bloomington, the event was covered on page...
...Tibor Meray. 33. is a plodding novelist but a masterly expositor of black-is-white party dialectics and the mechanics of self brainwashing. As a Communist reporter in Korea, he cried up the monstrous germ warfare charges against the U.S.. later took part in the Hungarian Revolution and fled to Paris, where he now lives...