Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drawer, suspicion grows sharper, and she wrings a confession from Patty in a shattering crossexamination. Nor do the revelations come singly. Nancy has long had doubts about her paternity, and now her middle-class world collapses as she discovers that her own mother was a mass murderer who had fled justice. Even worse, she must face these mountainous horrors alone, since her husband has been called out of town...
...exodus of French firms, it became difficult for them to find any sort of work. Premier Diem signed a law requiring all Vietnamese with names like Jean. Henri or Marcel to take genuine Indo-Chinese names like Nguyen, Tran or Trinh. Forced to choose between two worlds, many fled in desperation to France, where the government has set up refugee camps and schools for them...
Under all these conditions, some 1,300 boys and girls fled to West Berlin last fall; most of them enrolled for nine-month high-school refresher courses, then entered universities or technical schools. This fall ,he number of education immigrants will Drobably be even larger...
...streets, a car pulled up and an unidentified man urged him to get in and be taken to the airport so he could lie low in Florida. He got in, but managed to leap out safely when the car kept going in the wrong direction. Then the hoodlum fled to a hideout in Youngstown, Ohio. In July Telvi returned to New York, but he was still "too hot." A few days later, in a lower East Side street, police found his body, apparently dumped from a car, with a bullet wound in the back of the head...
Across Alberta's fertile grainlands, no farmers work their soil with greater diligence or more fruitfulness than the Hutterites, the bearded and devout descendants of German-speaking immigrants who fled Russia in 1874, seeking freedom to practice their austere faith. But Alberta's 4,000 Hutterites have been increasingly cramped by a provincial law restricting their land purchases and urgently want room to expand. Last week some of them seemed to have found their promised land in the Big Bend country of the Columbia River in the state of Washington...