Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something to do with a case of Scotch in their dressing room. Gary, 26, oldest of the quartet, says he lost his voice, but regained it long enough, during the boys' final set, to call a ringside lady "a drunken bum." Cutting the act very short, the lads fled back to their dressing room, where they bloodied Gary's nose and otherwise clouted him for crabbing the routine. After the bout, Gary rested briefly, then plodded to a nearby bar, expressing a simple sentiment about his hard-knuckled brothers: "I made them, and I can break them...
...Butler, the old man rose slowly to break his long parliamentary silence. His speech in full: "May I say I accept most gratefully and eagerly both forms of compliments." Afterward, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill celebrated the anniversary at their Hyde Park Gate home, which they had fled a day earlier to avoid getting underfoot while the chef and a platoon of servants were scurrying about while manning their party stations...
...only that Che was identified as a "Communist from abroad." With this sinecure in hand, Guevara settled down in a second-rate Guatemala City hotel, flitted in and out of the country on unexplained missions. With the Jacobo Arbenz government falling, Guevara tried to organize guerrillas to fight, then fled to Mexico, where he joined the Gramma band. Guevara, who denies that he is a Communist, insists that the Hungarian revolution was "fomented against the people's democracy by Fascists and imperialists...
Stranger in Paradise. Near Springfield, Ore., after the main building of the Willamettans nudist colony burned to the ground, its only winter resident, Caretaker A. B. Stevens, breathlessly reported that he had fled the flames with only a few personal belongings and "the clothes on my back...
With these restrictions in mind, a horde of tipped-off tabloid photographers descended on Club 84 and Father Gussoni, who panicked and fled. Trailed by the flashbulb boys to another nightspot, Gussoni and his friends sent out a waiter "disguised" as the priest to lead them off the scent, but one alert photographer simply followed raincoated Father Gussoni home and snapped another picture...