Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...G.O.P. club. Bridges set Smith straight. Said he: "Of course you are entitled to run for the job. Anyone can." Then Bridges sadly shook his head and added: "But it's too bad-I'm going after it, too." Alex Smith beat the hastiest retreat since Xerxes fled to the Hellespont...
Last week Security Chief Cassity explained why he blackballed Wolf Ladejinsky, famed U.S. agricultural attache in Tokyo (TIME, Jan. 3). Ladejinsky, who fled Russia after the Bolshevik revolution (leaving three sisters there), vigorously opposed the Reds. His anti-Communist record, including articles in such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, stretches back over 20 years. It turned out that Cassity suspected Ladejinsky of being another Mortimer Gooch. "You can't tell anything about a security problem by appearances," he said...
...States in Asia, and one of my most effective anti-Communist arguments with Asians has been that my success in the U.S. is a very natural thing to happen in our country. What will I tell them now?" Superior Service. The son of a prosperous rural miller, Wolf Ladejinsky fled his native Ukraine when the Bolsheviks took over. On a dark winter night, he ran across the frozen Dniester River into Rumania, worked for two years saving enough money to emigrate...
...they'll have to stay indoors. Maybe that will stop them." Poujade got his movement started when tax collectors came to his village in Southern France a year and a half ago. Pou jade, an ex-stevedore, professional bicycle rider and prewar Fascist-party politician who fled to England and fought in the R.A.F. during the war, was a municipal councillor. The villagers asked him for help. Poujade sympathized: "I cheat on my taxes, and I always have. I couldn't get by otherwise," he told them. He organized his first successful resistance...
Prosperity has brought a problem strange to Scotland-the need for more manpower. Over the years, Scotland's greatest export has always been Scotsmen. There are four Scots abroad for every one in Scotland. Its white-collar class fled from its dour hills and sooty cities, and as the warmth died from the great Glasgow furnaces, its best working manpower drained away to other lands. Today that wasting loss of the nation's best blood has been stanched...