Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the salesman couldn't verify his identity, Steiner told him to wait until he could call the Yard police. The salesman fled to the room of Fred Bowen...
...proudly recalled that the Archbishops of Canterbury had traditionally been protectors of the poor and oppressed, that St. Augustine had been the first to occupy the ancient see. Step by step, Becket fought the King's encroachments on church power; finally, in danger of his life, he fled to France in a rowboat. After six years he returned to Canterbury, still defiant. The King was heard to scream: "What sluggards, what cowards have I reared in my courts? Not one will deliver me from this turbulent priest...
Financier Silberstein built his empire by a succession of similar moves. A Berlin Stock Exchange member at 21, he fled Hitler's regime in the early '30s, after turning most of his investments into cash. During a brief U.S. visit, he invested $50,000 in depressed Cities Service and railroad bonds; the investment soared and gave him the capital he needed when he landed in the U.S. for good...
...World was William, a major genera! of Oliver Cromwell's England and one oi the 63 judges who condemned King Charles I to death. After the Restoration he fled to the American wilderness, where for decades he was a fugitive from the vengeance of Charles II. With his steeple hat, his flowing white beard, his Bible and his sword, William Goffe became a New England legend (Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote of him as The Gray Champion}. Years after his death, the shade of William Goffe reportedly appeared at Bunker Hill, and, later, before John Brown in the engine house...
Numismatist. In McKeesport, Pa., searched by the cops who nabbed him as he fled from the premises of the Tube City Lumber Co. with $5.20 in change stuffed and jingling in his shoes, Herbert W. Gailey, 33, explained: "I save dimes." Surprise! Near Warren, Ohio, after her husband bought an 1,800-lb. elephant to give her "something different" for her birthday, Mrs. Orla Drum proudly said that it was just what she wanted, planned to put it with the other animals in the zoo she keeps on her farm...