Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Jan. 21 story on the second bombing of my home (along with another parsonage and four churches here) indicated that I and my family had fled in panic after the explosion. Nothing was farther from the truth...
...sister is about to marry a progressive-minded preacher who is less interested in racial equality than he is in evening the score with erstwhile "first families" like the Welshes. Logan, the Negro field worker, is still loyal, but one of his sons has turned "uppity" and fled north to Harlem...
...them spoke . . . Then the door opened violently of its own accord without anybody seeing anything except a dim light of changing color that seemed to control the sound . . . Then a voice was clearly heard. 'Bosco, Bosco, Bosco, I am saved.' . . . The seminarists leapt out of bed and fled without knowing where to go . . . All had heard the noise and some of them the voice without gathering the meaning of the words...
Samuel Bernstein, the son of a Hasidic scholar, fled Russia when he was 16, to escape both the Czar's draft and the ghetto life. In New York City, in 1910, he found a job cleaning fish underneath the Brook lyn Bridge, for $1 a day. After a while he managed to get himself "in hair" ? he worked in a wigworks that made "rats" and "transformations." By the time Lennie was born, Sam had moved to Boston's Allston section and was building a prosperous business of his own as a beauty-parlor supplier...
Died. Max Ausnit, 69, onetime Rumanian steel and munitions magnate who fled to the U.S. in 1946, later (1948) was charged by the Communist-led Rumanian government with plotting revolution with American and British agents (1948), sentenced him to life imprisonment in absentia (his second such trial; at the first, in 1944, the Nazi puppet government gave him a death sentence after he escaped to Egypt in a stolen bomber); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...