Word: fled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles Wilson, escaping jail as Biggs had, fled to Rigaud, Canada, with his wife and three children. But the jailbreak cost $140,000 (for men to free him with cleverly counterfeit keys), and the flight from England about as much. The Wilsons lived in constant terror of attracting attention. "The nagging fear of discovery," said Patricia Wilson, "gave me a permanent headache." Said her husband, recaptured in January 1968: "It wasn't worth...
...over to his St. Regis suite one winter afternoon to do his portrait. "We'll begin by casting your tongue," said Dali. "Why?" asked Geldzahler. "I want to do a gold head of you," replied Dali, "and it's going to have a tongue that wags." Henry fled...
...part on one of the monstrosities of modern times: the Wall. From 1945 until 1961, when the Communists erected the 28-mile barrier that seals off East Berlin from western parts of the city, 3,600,000 East Germans, including some of the most promising scientists and young workers, fled to the West. The Wall forced those penned behind it to acknowledge that they would be spending the rest of their lives in the East-so why not try to make the best of a bad situation? To encourage the changing mood, Ulbricht in 1963 instituted a new economic plan...
America, America, thy birds have fled...
...massive hulk of a man, is a Russian Jew whose family fled to the Warsaw ghetto, then to Palestine to escape both the pogroms of the goyim and the onslaught of the Nazis. But in Palestine there were the Arabs to contend with. In order to survive, the Jews had to become killers, and Itzhak Hod became one of the best they had. After the war Hod joined the hunt for escaped Nazi war criminals, and he became very good at that...