Word: fled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...following day, the crowds in the square were twice as large. As 10,000 Czechoslovaks, curious tourists and journalists milled about in the afternoon sunshine, the armored personnel carriers and water cannons appeared again. Without warning, the police suddenly began lobbing tear gas into the crowd. As people fled down side streets in panic, the cops pursued them, truncheons flailing. Before the streets finally emptied late that night, 320 people had been arrested and two killed...
Emboldened, the crowd in Wenceslas began shouting, "Husák is a traitor, Husák is a traitor!" In response, police lobbed tear-gas grenades. As people fled the square, the side streets were quickly blocked by troops. Bands of helmeted police waded into the fleeing demonstrators, indiscriminately clubbing young and old alike...
...fire, the Israelis held a press conference on the Jewish sabbath-an unprecedented peacetime action-to announce the arrest. Police emphasized that Jerusalem Arabs provided the most important clues by giving them a description of the man and a vest that had been torn from him as he fled from the scene. Said an Israeli police official: "We have enough evidence for any court in this country to convict...
...cattle. Playing on those resentments, the Soviets in 1961 encouraged Sinkiang's Moslems to stir up the native groups by comparing their bad treatment under the Chinese with better conditions in the Soviet Union. When the snows melted in the spring, some 60,000 Uighurs and Kazakhs fled across the border. Soviet trucks picked up the refugees, while Russian troops sometimes covered their escape...
...that details are lacking; there are too many details, piled like bodies. The Rhone River was consecrated by Pope Clement VI so that corpses could be thrown into it; the living abandoned virtue in one town and sin in another; doctors and clergymen fled and hid at their country estates, or they stayed courageously with the dying and died themselves. Columns of flagellants, convinced by the Death that God had found them guilty, marched through German towns whipping themselves. Jews were accused of causing the plague by poisoning wells and were burned in their ghettos. But the emotions-then...