Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parliamentary immunity. But the relatives of the murdered men persisted, and the police began to accumulate evidence that even Moranino's fellow Communists could not talk away. Early last year the Chamber of Deputies voted to suspend Deputy Moranino's immunity. By that time Moranino had fled to Communist Prague. Last month he went on trial in absentia in Florence's court of assizes...
...crept north from the Egyptian-held Gaza strip. Submachine guns thundered in the room, and ten-year-olds went down in windrows. Three boys and a teacher died almost instantly; three others fell badly wounded. Others jumped out of windows, took shelter in a ditch. The killers fled. It was minutes before a teacher broke open the lock on the school telephone and called police...
...between the guerrillas and the Greek army in 1947, Zachariades took to the hills. It was Zachariades' idea to kidnap thousands of peasant children and hold them hostages for the loyalty of their parents. When the U.S.-backed Greek army defeated the Communist partisans in 1949, Zachariades fled to Rumania. At Stalin's bloody-minded behest, he ordered the execution of Partisan General Markos Vafiades. Thereafter he dribbled Communist spies into Greece, whom he denounced whenever the police got on their trail...
...shouted the President, striking the table with his open hand, and the man fled from the room...
Laughed Off. In New York, police looked for the man who, wearing a huge false nose and oversized glasses, stepped up to Chase Manhattan Bank Teller William Blaha, handed him a note that read, "This is a stickup. Hand over $10,000," fled after Blaha burst out laughing and asked, "Are you kidding...