Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russian Composer Prokofiev that he fled the U.S., where he had been touring since 1918. For 18 months he hid out in the depths of Bavaria-to finish another opera...
...presumably, planted a bomb in the starboard wheel-well. Because the actual deaths occurred far beyond the Hong Kong police jurisdiction, Chow could only be charged with "conspiracy to murder" (maximum penalty: ten years). They would also have to find him. One month after the air crash, Chow fled to Formosa...
...many human rights that Communism does not recognize is the right to leave one's country and go elsewhere. Since World War II, well over a million escapees and refugees have fled west to escape the secret police, forced labor or other aspects of life in an Orwellian 1984. For the old, the ill, or the unemployable the journey was, in Communist eyes, good riddance. But the departure of the young and the skilled was a loss, as well as bad propaganda. In recent months a concerted serenade has sounded from behind the Iron Curtain: come home...
Last week, Yu got a third visitation: three unidentified ruffians waited in the shadows of his doorway as he drove up to his house, ordered him inside and shot him dead. Called by a fleeing servant, the police arrived in time to kill one assailant while the others fled. Loath to borrow trouble in matters involving Formosa and Peking, the Hong Kong police at first attempted to dismiss the whole incident as "a simple robbery," but later, thinking better of it, posted a whopping reward of $3,500 for the missing murderers...
...interviewed several hundred Soviet refugees, believe that the much-touted toughness is often a thin veneer, particularly among the "Golden Youth" of the new Soviet upper classes. In The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, Beier and Bauer present a case history: 30-year-old Oleg, an intellectual who fled to the West...