Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...busily with his good friend Russian Ambassador Nikolai Generaloff to root Western influence out of the country. In the words of one correspondent, they are "closer than worms in a bait can." Cairo has also given asylum to Colonel Abdullah el Tel, onetime Arab Legion commander in Jerusalem, who fled Jordan to escape imprisonment for complicity in the assassination of King Abdullah. He busies himself with the "Free Officers" Club of dissident Arab Legion officers in Cairo. Abd el Krim, the old Berber warrior who once kept 20,000 French troops on the run, is maintained as a decorative figurehead...
...Ranges & Registers. Jenny's teacher is an intense, grizzled, German-born man named Alfred Wolfson, 59, who made his living after World War I as a remedial voice trainer, fled to London after Hitler took power, and there developed a theory that is now almost an obsession. "Man has misjudged, underestimated, neglected and finally stultified his voice," he says. "Man has elevated the sin against nature to a dogma, the dogma of those strictly confined, neatly labeled categories: male voice and female, high voice and low, child's voice and adult's. In reality, the natural human...
...time reinforcements arrived, the Zulu dagga planters had fled to the impenetrable, distant mountains. Unable to pursue them, police returned to the dagga valley with a fleet of trucks. At week's end they had harvested and destroyed close to 200 tons of deathly dagga...
...Spaniards' Negro slaves, known as Maroons (from the Spanish cimarrones, meaning fugitive slaves), were unconquered, and fled to a remote area called the Cockpit Country, where their descendants still live...
...armed robber on the head with a nightstick, made a direct hit on him with a vacuum bottle as he stepped back, rapped him on the fingers with the club when he made a last grab for the hotel's money, explained to police after he fled: "He made me mad with his brashness...