Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tension over the bus fares exploded in an orgy of uncontrolled rioting. Opposing factions, organized into fighting impis (regiments), battled it out in the streets of Evaton for three days. Some 2,000 terrified women of the district hastily gathered up their children and their household goods and fled to the police barracks, where they set up a refugee camp, while police reinforcements from a dozen nearby cities fought the rioters with Sten guns and fell back in confusion before the wildly swinging clubs of the mobs. Four more Africans were killed and a score hospitalized. By the third night...
Many speculators made fortunes by selling short. But thousands of small investors lost heavily in the sliding market. Though Italy can ill afford to lose investment capital, hundreds of millions of dollars have already fled the country...
...spring of 1862, a Union spy named James J. Andrews and a score of volunteer infantrymen from Ohio penetrated nearly 200 miles behind the Confederate lines in Tennessee, seized a railway train outside Marietta, Ga. and raced north intending to destroy track and railway bridges as they fled. Their object: to prevent Southern reinforcements from being sent from Atlanta while Union General Mitchel made a surprise attack on Chattanooga...
...fled From halls of council to his Negro...
...them downhill. One fugitive slave, possibly a survivor of some such punishment, had himself nailed up in a box 3 ft. by 2½ ft. by 2 ft. and survived a 25-hour shipment on the railroad to the North. There was a real-life model for Eliza who fled across Ohio River ice, but with no bloodhounds in pursuit. In fact, the bloodhounds are a bit of stage business thought up by the play adapter of Uncle Tom's Cabin and do not exist in Mrs. Stowe's novel...