Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toes-and the office seeker." On Jackson's first Inauguration Day, more than 20,000 people poured in, breaking thousands of dollars worth of furniture and crockery, raiding the pantry, spilling punch on the carpets, standing on the chairs, and overwhelming President Jackson, who finally fled for his life out the back door...
...eventually sentenced to a year in jail for forgery, grand larceny and conspiracy. Later, a $6,000,000 civil judgment was returned against him. When asked his occupation for the jail records, Tweed replied: "Statesman." With official connivance, Tweed escaped from the Ludlow Street Jail and fled to Spain, where authorities recognized him from a Thomas Nast cartoon and arrested him as the kidnaper of two American children. Reason: the cartoon had shown Tweed clutching two symbolic ragamuffins. Tweed was returned to the U.S. and died in jail...
...winter of 1939 the German SS set fire to the Danzig synagogue during a service. Young Betty escaped, later fled with her parents to Australia, where she continued her Hebrew studies. There she also met her future husband, then a corporal in the U.S. Medical Corps...
...Last Stand. When military police reached the scene, many of the sadhus had fled, but a sturdy minority, including Pagala Baba, had retired to a maze of underground cells within the tunnel-honeycombed fortress, and had to be flushed out one by one with tear gas. In the courtyard the police found a huge chariot in which the mad monk's disciples were wont to haul him about. Statues of Pagala Baba were displayed in the gardens and orchards of the math. His bedroom was adorned with tiger skins and statuettes of nude women. Underground, behind steel doors...
...Premier Edgar Faure to take over the paper and support the government in the more autonomous rule it planned for Morocco. Mazzella returned from Paris and was named editor in chief. After Lemaigre-Dubreuil was murdered, Mazzella was again warned of an attack on his life, and he fled for the second time. He returned to Casablanca on Bastille Day, kept Maroc-Presse publishing while mobs rioted outside his plant for two days...