Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most charitable explanation of John's conduct was that he was laboring under some kind of perverted patriotism or pique. In 1944 John had been a member of the famous Von Stauffenberg conspiracy to kill Hitler. When the plot failed, John's brother was shot; John himself fled to England. Many Germans regarded John as a traitor for joining the British when Germany was fighting for her life. The U.S. and West German intelligence agencies did not trust him. Largely at British insistence, he got the secret-service...
Character Witness. In Miami, five days after he fled from his job in a Hamilton, Ont. shoe store with the contents of the cash register, Robert Happy, 17, strolled into a specialty shop to buy a gun, blandly flashed his shoe-store identification card, was arrested as soon as the identification was checked with his former boss...
...Airport with his mother were hundreds of loyal ex-staffers, old friends and notables, even left-wing political adversaries. They were there to greet the man who had become one of the symbols of Perón's persecution since he had been arrested in 1951, escaped, and fled abroad. The crowd broke into cheers and tears as Gainza Paz and his wife stepped off the plane from New York. "It is with indescribable emotion that I return to my liberated country," said Gainza Paz in a choked voice. As his well-wishers nearly knocked him down, a squad...
...sitting in a car at 10:45 p.m. when the man walked up to them, drew a gun, and forced the girl to go with him. Second later, FitzGerald, who patrols the area, passed the car and was told what had happened. He gave chase and the attacker fled. FitzGerald then called the Cambridge police...
...anti-golpe." In the small dark hours, troops in battle kit swarmed into rain-soaked Rio. By morning the city was in Lett's hands. Segments of the navy and air force first declared for Luz, but backed down the next day without firing a shot. Luz himself fled aboard a navy cruiser. The Chamber of Deputies declared Luz "unable to serve" (on the technical ground that he was at sea), duly named as his successor Senate President Nereu Ramos, next in line according to the Constitution. One of Ramos' first official acts was to reappoint Lott...