Word: fled
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When the party was banned in 1939, Giap fled to China. His wife stayed behind, was arrested by the French, and died in prison. Under the aegis of the Chinese Communists, the Viet Minh was founded, with Giap a 1941 charter member along with Ho Chi Minh. Ho ordered the little professor to specialize in military affairs, and the career of the Red Napoleon began. His first self-education was in guerrilla operations against the Japanese who then occupied Viet Nam. The OSS supplied Giap with American weapons to that end, but Giap was looking to the future: he cached...
...clubs and rifle butts. When police swooped down on the home of onetime Rebel Adviser Hector Aristy, guards inside opened fire and kept it up for half an hour. When the smoke cleared, two guards were dead. Once inside, police found a large arms cache, but Aristy had apparently fled. At week's end police and Dominican troops seemed to have things under control...
...come a long way from the snow-covered Hungarian landscape over which she trudged with her parents that December day ten years ago, when they fled in the uprising of her homeland. Now Maria Judith Remenyi, 20, has a new country and a title that emphatically proves it. She is the new Miss U.S.A., a distinction she won more on the strength of båjos charms than on the basis of her cerebral talents-four languages and a major in physics at the University of California. "You may not realize how wonderful it is to be an American unless...
...Marini fled to Paris, incubated his talents with the help of artists like Picasso and Julio González for one year, and then chose Milan as his work place when he returned home to become eventually Italy's most important modern sculptor. Yet his works, for all their modernity and energetic eclecticism, look as if they predated Michelangelo by a thousand years (see color pages...
...semideaf, he was "shy, diffident, introverted-an exceptionally quiet guy." Six months of study with Composer Paul Hindemith at Yale didn't help matters much; he lost 25 Ibs. and suffered a nervous breakdown. "I couldn't take his Prussian taskmaster tactics," says Bazelon. Bazelon eventually 'fled to California to study at Mills College with Composer Darius Milhaud, and in 1948 decided to strike out on his own. For the next seven years he worked in Manhattan as a railroad reservations clerk and wrote music on the side...