Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love," wrote the Aga Khan in his autobiography three years ago, "that time for me has fled on too swift a wing." Last week swift-winged time came to an end for the legendary old Prince of Islam. In a quiet lakeside villa at Versoix, Switzerland, his huge bulk wasted to a mere 132 Ibs., His Highness Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, the Aga Khan III and spiritual leader of some 20 million Ismaili Moslems throughout the East, the Middle East and Africa...
...jewelry to show his affection, but the marriage was brief. After a 49-day honeymoon on Capri, Joanne disappeared, taking her money and jewels. Jaime found her in a dingy pensione, seriously ill after a sleeping-pill suicide attempt. He took her to Rome for treatment, and she fled again, led him a chase to Lausanne, Paris, London, then back to Rome. In July 1954 Patiño filed suit for divorce on the grounds of desertion...
...thanks to TIME for publishing the photo of Mr. and Mrs. Petrov, authors of Empire of Fear. Curiously enough, it cleared for me the mystery of my only brother's disappearance in Soviet Russia. I fled from the U.S.S.R. in 1920. There I left my younger brother, with whom I corresponded regularly until 1937; then something happened. I never got another letter from...
...hero, shiftless, sodden Painter Earl worked for the British until the patriots began to win, then deserted his wife and two children and fled to England, where he subsequently deserted another wife and more children to return to America and drink himself to death...
...Austin's First National Bank. All went swimmingly until 1894, when Will was 32 and the father of a five-year-old daughter. Then a sharp-eyed bank examiner dropped in at the First National and found a shortage of $5,557.02 in Will's accounts. Porter fled to Central America, came back when his wife was dying and finally stood trial...