Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communism persists, the future of Western civilization and of Christianity itself will depend utterly on the progress of science, wherefore on our scientists . . . Our scientists live and work by a philosophy of freedom. Most of the leading wizards who have so far kept us ahead in the atomic race fled here from military dictation and just such assault as the Shepley-Blair "report" which TIME [Nov. 8] defends. Their attitudes cannot be evaluated by people who do not understand their scientific credo. They cannot work well under regimentation: you can lead a free scientist to water but you cannot make...
Last week police felt they had an airtight case against the Sotgius for inciting to prostitution and corruption of a minor. But when they visited the Sotgius' apartment, they found that the couple had fled. Rome's fascinated newspaper readers promptly labeled Giuseppe Sotgiu a "collectivist of love." Plainly embarrassed, the Rome section of the Communist Party banned Provincial Council President Sotgiu from all party activities until he took steps "fully to restore his honor as a citizen...
...Nobel Prize in Physics for 1954 was divided between two Germans: Drs. Max Born and Walther Bothe, who were leaders in the "new physics" that started with relativity and quantum theory and ended (so far) with the hydrogen bomb. Dr. Born, 72, who fled Germany in the mid-'30s is credited with much of the difficult mathematics that enabled physicists to understand the behavior of atoms...
...eligible voters, and 99.3% approval for every one of the 400 candidates. (Though the East German Parliament has unanimously approved everything put before it, new candidates had to be elected to replace nine Deputies who have been arrested, 44 fired for political unreliability, and 15 who have fled to the West...
Through the dark '305, Vogue cut its pattern to the times, counseled readers to concentrate on "more taste than money." When World War II broke, it dutifully reported on Paris fashions until its staff fled the city. Schiaparelli's last Paris collection, said Vogue bravely, had been "especially ingenious . . . With metal and leather taken by the Army, she fastened her coats with dog leashes." In bombed-out London, British Vogue continued to publish, carried ads for "especially designed protection costumes ... of pure oiled silk . . . available in dawn, apricot, rose, amethyst, Eau de Nil green and pastel pink...