Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reports of Moroccan savagery against Spanish civilians: one eyewitness said he had seen the mangled body of a pregnant Spanish woman who had been raped, then disemboweled by tribesmen. (By contrast, said a Madrid communique. Spanish forces gave humane consideration to the "wife of a well-known extremist who fled his village, leaving her behind with three children of less than three years. Every time our planes flew over the village, they remembered to drop by parachute condensed milk and food for the little ones...
...told the police he was approached by a youth, who asked for a match. Yhen he stopped, the boy slapped him. He managed to hit his assailant once before four other boys appeared and began to beat him also. When he finally managed to break away, his attackers also fled...
...unidentified youths set off a fire alarm at 2:30 a.m. yesterday in Radcliffe's Eliot Hall, but fled before police and firemen arrived. The only witness Suzanne R. Hiatt '58, reported that the pair drove off in a blue station wagon...
Conditioned Reflex. In Halesowen, England, after Albert A. Pastore explained that he fled the scene of an accident involving his car because he spotted his wife on the street and, having another woman with him, his "instinct was to put distance between the two," the judge dismissed the charge...
...Hindsight. In 1937, a badly-scared Hanfstaengl fled Germany, convinced that the Nazi "wild men" were about to kill him. He spent World War II shuttling between British detention camps and the U.S., now lives in Munich...