Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before they knew it. two Syrian MIG 17 jets swooped down in an "aggressive" pass. Dalgleish plunged the royal plane earthward, hedgehopped for 20 minutes as it fled back to the Jordanian border while the Syrian MIGs, flown somewhat amateurishly, made five more "quarter attacks" at the plane, but without firing. Landed safely at his capital city of Amman, King Hussein turned to Dalgleish, grinned: "Let's have some breakfast...
...surged through the streets of Abidjan (pop. 128,000), capital city of the Ivory Coast, shouting against the black "invaders" from Dahomey and Togoland. Armed with knives, clubs and broken bottles, rioters smashed down any Dahomeyans or Togolanders they met. Houses were looted and set afire and as women fled into the streets, they were dragged off and raped. Native Ivory Coast policemen stood by and watched. Only the Frenchmen in the police force tried to restore order...
...shooting was Chicago-style, but the setting was Moscow. A cop surprised four masked burglars trying to break into a store. There was a burst of gunfire, and the four leaped into a taxi and fled, leaving the policeman dying from seven bullet wounds. Eyewitnesses provided one useful clue: the gunmen wore the narrow trousers, oversized jackets and ducktail haircuts of stilyagi, the Russian version of zoot-suiters...
...autobiographical Black Boy (TIME, March 5, 1945), Author Wright described how, from a horrible childhood in the South, he fled first to Chicago, then New York, finally to Paris.* He was an easy mark for the Communists but eventually saw through them and earned their lasting enmity. In The Long Dream the Mississippi Negro boy is called Rex "Fishbelly" Tucker, but so far as the story's essentials are concerned, his name might be Richard Wright. Fishbelly's father, an undertaker, once taught him an important truth as he buried the mutilated body of a young Negro...
Tillich, who fled from Nazi Germany in 1933, also stated that the South has much older problems than did Nazi Germany, since the South's problems go back to the days of slavery and resentment against the North...