Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always indirect evidence that Communist North Viet Nam was behind the attempts to overthrow the pro-Western Laotian government of Premier Phoui Sananikone. The fact finders had traveled to jungle outposts that still bore the marks of Communist mortar fragments and had interviewed hundreds of refugees who had fled the Communists; most convincing of all, they had examined captured weapons and uniforms that clearly originated across the border in North Viet Nam. But at the last minute, the Laotians had decided against presenting to the fact finders their "six North Vietnamese prisoners." The reason: the men admittedly had not been...
...Hitler Germany's greatest stars, "Lisl" Bergner fled the country in 1933, scored a series of brilliant U.S. and British stage and screen successes (Stolen Life, The Two Mrs. Carrolls, Escape Me Never, Catherine the Great). But in the years just after the war, the Hollywood magic somehow gave out; Bergner appeared in a succession of stage flops, finally retired to London with her husband. Film Producer Paul Czinner. Last week's performance proved that her retirement had been premature...
During World War II, when Japan was allied with Nazi Germany, Kotsuji feared persecution for his Semitic sympathies and fled to Manchuria; he returned later to teach at Kantogakuin, a private university in Yokohama. As he recalls it, he was in a spiritual quandary. ul had stopped practicing Christianity because I found the Trinity doctrine unreasonable. I abhorred Buddhism because it is a skeptical religion, without a central idea or purpose. I could not return to Shintoism's immaturity, its inadequate guide for living." Jewish friends introduced Kotsuji to leaders of the newly founded, Jerusalem-based World Union...
...Cash. In mid-September, Jasper & Co. ran out of cash. Shareholders who had accepted the Jasper bids were not being paid off. Within three days the market value of Jasper's empire fell from $48 million to $33.5 million, and Jasper sadly announced that Grunwald had fled to Israel. Building Society stockholders were offered only one shilling (16?) payment on their shares a month...
Eighteen of the rebels, including Castro, fled to the unknown terrain of the hills and promptly got lost. Possibly 20 rebels were killed during the fighting. When they were brought to trial, the rebels numbered only 27, over 70 of the captured and wounded, with innocent townspeople, having been assasinated by the berserk soldiers...