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Word: fled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...normal human being. She went to the University of California, fell in love with a fellow student, and at 19 told her father that they were getting married. He flew into a rage, threw them out of the house and shouted at her in the street as she fled: "You lousy little bitch! You'll never play two notes again without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Return of the Prodigy | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...long underwear and tape. One hefty yardling won the game for Harvard, however, when he dashed onto the field of action and stole the football, bringing the initiation to an abrupt finish. An effort to continue the game, substituting a gander for the ball, was foiled when the fowl fled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Upholds Crimson Honor in Winning 'Battle of the Big Drum' | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...much as a third of the orchestra was sick at one time, probably with the Eastern malady known as "Delhi belly," but all performed manfully. At an open-air concert in Baghdad, a band of yelping dogs competed so successfully that at the concert's end Dorati fled from the podium in a huff, a case of dogs beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Americans Abroad | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

False Promises. To avoid arrest, Talamas fled to the U.S. embassy. But a few hours later, on the advice of U.S. embassy officials who twice received Haitian government assurances that he would not be mistreated, he surrendered to the police. Next morning, Colonel Louis Roumain, the junta's foreign affairs chief, informed the inquiring embassy that during the night. Talamas assaulted an officer and in the "scuffle" suffered a "heart attack" and died. Accompanied by U.S. officials, three U.S. doctors examined the body, found it a mass of ugly bruises and welts, and the State Department issued the official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Murder by Beating | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...testimony, she used sex to drown her grief, but it did not work: there was only "an increase in my inescapable dedication to Dylan." With the Welsh ladies' faces set against her like so many druid stones, Caitlin took her five-year-old son Colm and fled into exile, to the Italian island of Elba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two of a Kind | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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