Word: fled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition, the Northern white has fled these areas, segregating the Negro in a perfectly legal manner. Invariably, the effectiveness of public services in these areas--ranging from schooling to garbage collection--have sharply fallen...
...truth seemed to be that the fighting had moved some 15 or 20 miles beyond Nsukka deeper into Biafra, and that the federal troops had simply moved through the city without bothering at first to garrison it. It was probably largely deserted anyway, since thousands of Nsukkans had fled the federal attack in trucks, taxis and mammy wagons, joined in the first retreat by large numbers of Biafra's inexperienced soldiers. The Biafran army consisted at secession of about 7,000 men, only 2,500 of them trained in the federal army-and those chiefly in supporting service roles...
...boldest of the guerrillas is Antonio Negro, a Cuban who fought with Castro in the Sierra Maestra. A few weeks ago, Negro strolled into the small town of Saipuru, stole a truck and eight gallons of gasoline from a government-owned oil company, then fled with five soldiers as his prisoners. Last week a manifesto signed by Negro was making the rounds in La Paz, calling on Bolivians to make their nation a "strategic center of continental revolution." To win over peasants in the countryside, the guerrillas-apparently financed by Cuba-often pay double prices at the local stores...
...general level of makeup and writing is lower than that of white dailies. The Negro papers often take a jocular view of crime. A columnist for the Amsterdam News called "Mr. 125 Street" offers typical items :"Goldie Reed fled after his chin was creased while he was having a discussion with his wife. . . . Florence Smith of the Bronx and Ann Jackson of Brooklyn met in Harlem, and Jackson's neck was sliced." Such self-stereotyping repels many well-educated Negroes. "It hurts to read these papers," says a Negro student at Dallas' Bishop College, "because it makes...
...Harvard varsity heavyweight crew has fled the Charles River to begin its last week of practice before the Pan-American Rowing Championships...