Word: fled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after the round that greeted his support for higher police pay-was evoked by his condemnation of racial violence in the slums. "Much can explain but nothing can justify the riots of 1967," he said. Condemning Black Power agitators, "whose interests lay in provoking others to destruction while they fled its consequences," Johnson declared: "These wretched, vulgar men-these poisonous propagandists-posed as spokesmen for the underprivileged and capitalized on the real grievances of the suffering people...
...prosperous than life in Franco's Spain, have developed a British sense of fair play and justice and an almost embarrassing devotion to the royal family. By ancestry most of them are neither British nor Spanish. Some are Sephardic Jews originally expelled from Spain during the Inquisition; others fled Genoa in the 1790s to escape the havoc of the Napoleonic Wars; many came from Malta to seek work in the British dockyards. Over the years, they have developed into a surprisingly homogeneous population of 25,000 people who are tidy, industrious and bilingual (English and Spanish...
Spooked by Spooky. As the North Vietnamese fled south toward the rising foothills of the Central Highlands, the Marines, now six companies strong, took off in pursuit. But the North Vietnamese were retreating to an area where at least a full regiment of more than 1,000 men was already entrenched in dugouts and caves. At dusk, the Communists struck back at the outnumbered Marines. Bayonet-wielding North Vietnamese soldiers charged the U.S. positions; some got within 15 feet of Marine machine guns before they were cut down. Marines snatched grenades from their dead buddies and hurled them without taking...
They are the outlaw remnants, some 3,000 strong, of Chiang Kai-shek detachments that fled China in 1949 when the Communists took over. They still wear uniforms and sport impressive arsenals of mortars and recoilless rifles, as well as rifles and machine guns. But lately they have been bugged by increasing independence on the part of smugglers, such as Chan Chi-foo, a slender half-Chinese, half-Shan tribesman in his 30s who speaks softly but carries the big stick of a modern warlord, commanding the services of perhaps 2,000 well-armed...
...plantation country near Punia, Schramme and his men began a march on the border city of Bukavu, once a resort for rich Belgian colonials. They met little resistance. Warned by jungle telegraph that the mercenaries were approaching, the defenders of Bukavu threw away their arms, commandeered civilian clothes, and fled across the Ruzizi River into Rwanda...