Word: fled
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Undogmatic, Uncommitted. Dr. Redlich was being overmodest; the appointment was as much a tribute to his personal qualities. Originally Fritz Karl Redlich, he fled Vienna and Nazism in 1938 because of his partly Jewish ancestry. During World War II, he anglicized his name after being told, "You can't be named Fritz like every prisoner of war." But he still signs letters "Fritz" and uses it on popular books...
...Viet Cong, who follow a deliberate policy of killing civilians. In a hospital in the Mekong Delta, Rusk came across a five-year-old girl who had lost both legs at the knees. The Viet Cong raided her village, and when they discovered that all the men had fled, flung grenades into houses where the women and chil dren were hiding. At another hospital, Rusk witnessed the arrival of 17 civilians who had been badly mauled when their bus ran over a Viet Cong land mine-one of the principal causes of war injuries. A six-year-old child died...
Surrounded by the armored carriers, the overloaded sampan had immediately begun to list and overturned into the water. When one of their number had been killed, the Viet Cong squad jumped out of the sampan and fled to shore. Be also leaped into the water and was trying to hide himself under the surface when a South Vietnamese soldier grabbed him by the hair and pulled him out. He was the only one taken captive-and he had never got to fire a single shot...
...into the souffle, then stopped his laden fork in mid-air to expound some point that lasted for 20 minutes, while the souffle sagged and expired, and the agonized maître d'hôtel at last, without a word, snatched up the flattened remains and fled to the kitchen...
Markell chased the unarmed bandit down Mt. Auburn St. toward Boylston St. The thief lost his nerve, Markell said, dropped the loot on the steps of Holyoke Center, and fled...