Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back home, Lebanon's sharp-trading Christian and Moslem businessmen ruefully reckoned their losses. An estimated $50 million in foreign funds have fled, and bankers moaned that even if a compromise could halt the bloodletting, Lebanon would be a long time regaining its reputation as a safe, stable island in the turbulent Middle East...
...Believers irked Czars and Communists alike. They were hounded constantly, finally fled to Manchuria's Three Rivers Valley near Harbin in the late 1920s. There they lived peacefully until 1945, farming and hunting tiger and boar. Then the Soviet army marched in to occupy the area, threw 300 of the menfolk into slave labor camps. In 1952 the Chinese Communists, who had taken over, promised the sect a chance to migrate to Paraguay. The Old Believers sold their hunting rifles and farms, only to have the Communist government go back on its promise. But last year Peking finally softened...
World War II. Fluent in German, he served as an interpreter with the French army in Belgium until the Nazis captured him. After his release he. fled to the Alps, there joined the resistance, won the Croix de Guerre...
Busy Gravedigger. As the refugees fled to greener lands, they buried their dead along the way, piling stones to keep off animals and topping the graves with crude wooden crosses. "We are working hard," said a gravedigger in the parched town of Juàzeiro do Norte, where funerals can be bought for 4?. "We have twelve children to bury every day. It used to be one or two." Health officials estimated that in the worst drought areas half of all children under a year old would...
...Manhattan photographers: dutifully they helped hoist "Miss Body Beautiful" aloft for enterprising Chicago newsmen. Light-Heavyweight Trofim Lomakin let one publicity man con him into posing on horseback until a comrade muttered: "Cossack!" Bantamweight Vladimir Stogov, an army chauffeur, took a turn behind the wheel of a new Ford, fled in terror when he pushed a button and the retractable hardtop began to fold. By the time the Russians got to their first match in Chicago's International Amphitheater they should have been thoroughly bushed. But they were still more than a match for the seven U.S. strongmen...