Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Cubans were still convinced that Castro is not the Communist that his old friend, Díaz Lanz. says he is. But by outlawing anti-Communism in Cuba, he had proved that, willingly or not, he is the Reds' best tool in Latin America since Jacobo Arbenz fled Guatemala in 1954 and eventually fetched up in Prague, Czechoslovakia. And he is a strongman of terrifying power. No Cuban could feel safe when one man could, with mere words, so quickly reduce the President of his country to the status of a traitor...
...villa in the buff with a pet monkey perched on her shoulder. Only an outsider-a Western Union boy-was shocked. When he delivered a telegram, the boy took one look at the apparition bowing low before him, shoved the message into the monkey's paw and fled...
...Hellet of Baton Rouge leaped across the room to turn out the lights-and had not one of the terrorists who tried to throw a homemade bomb into the room miscalculated and blown himself up instead. Within minutes Vietnamese troops arrived, but the rest of the assassins had already fled...
...oozing into animal-like forms under the pressures of war, derided the Nazis so devastatingly from the appearance of the first swastika that Hitler labeled him "Cultural Bolshevist No. 1 and featured him prominently in the 1937 Munich exhibition of degenerate art; of a heart attack; in Berlin. Grosz fled to the U.S. in 1932, where he became a citizen and turned to painting plump nudes in placid landscapes, but the memory of homely sights and sounds lured him back to his beloved Berlin three weeks...
...Prime Minister Koirala are agreed on the need to put their chaotic country to rights. Tawny-skinned and brown-eyed, with a thin face and frame like that of Frank Sinatra, Prime Minister Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala was born at Banaras, India in 1914, where his articulate professional father had fled the wrath of the Ranas. Graduating from the University of Calcutta with a law degree, Koirala joined Nehru and Gandhi in the fight for Indian independence, was jailed for 2^ years by the British. With the downfall of the Ranas, he returned to Nepal with his older half brother...