Word: fled
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When Pacelli was born in 1876, in Rome, the papacy seemed doomed to a decline. Six years before, it had been stripped of temporal power beyond the tiny (108.7 acres) Vatican enclave. Only 22 years before that, Pope Pius IX had fled when Mazzini and his revolutionists seized control of Rome. In Pacelli's childhood the world outside the Vatican seethed with anticlericalism and glowed with humanist confidence in the ever onwardness and upwardness of history. Today the papacy and the Catholic Church are immensely stronger. Part of the story is told in numbers: during Pius...
...tears in his eyes. He cleared his throat, blew his nose, and went on. "After that they came thick and fast. Sometimes the phone rang before I had relinquished my grip on the newly-cradled receiver. Marrowitz, Marrowitz, Marrowitz, roared in a tumultuous crescendo inside my skull. Finally I fled into the unknown morning, vaguely seeking surceace in Sever Hall with Uzbek Studies 229. It was ghastly--so ghastly I cannot talk about it. The obscene rites that there transpired, as registered on my fear-crazed brain by my blear-hazed eyes have completed the utter rout of my resources...
...Bela Bartok Jr. has turned up about 40 manuscripts left behind by Bartok in Budapest when he fled during World...
...medical activists," warned that all private practice would be destroyed so that they could devote full time to serving "people's medical establishments." The result: in eight months 813 doctors, 2,393 teachers and about 200 professors-including the rector of the University of Jena (TIME, Sept. 1)-fled to the West. At Leipzig's biggest X-ray clinic, only seven radiologists remained out of an original staff of 27; at East Berlin's biggest hospital, only eleven gynecologists were left of a staff...
Breezy Rise. In 1954, when she suddenly fled Hollywood after starring in 30 major movies since 1940, it hardly seemed possible that glittering Gene Tierney might be "broken." Born well to do, the daughter of a prosperous Manhattan insurance broker with an estate in Connecticut's fashionable Fairfield County, her rise was a breeze. But behind the beauty and breeding, behind the mask of confidence, she hid too much to handle alone. There was quite...