Word: fled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Negro youths began pelting cops with rocks, bottles and garbage-can lids. One of them broke a liquor-store window, grabbed two bottles and fled. When a policeman fired two warning shots, the mob, which had begun to disperse, went wild. A crowd swarmed into Grand Street, surrounded a car driven by a 22-year-old white man, John Hudak. They smashed the car windows, dragged Hudak from the vehicle, and beat him with a baseball bat before police could rescue...
...second Battle of Hastings. To Hastings, now a drab south-coast resort town, it was simply the bloody awfullest sight since William the Conqueror. Mothers locked their children safe indoors, merchants closed their shops and pulled down the blinds, sedate middle-aged couples on the beach fled for cover. The Mods and the Rockers had come to town...
...midsummer madness struck Western Europe last week. Bulletins on French radio had the urgency of war communiques: "The traffic jam is now approaching Lyon . . . It is now impossible to pass through Avignon . . . Accidents have blocked all roads into Aix." In Italy, three-quarters of the population of Milan fled the city. Rome, Florence, Naples and Genoa were dead, and Capri, Elba, Rimini and Viareggio as jammed as Coney Island on the 4th of July. Thousands of vacationers had to stand twelve hours in railroad coaches to reach the sea. In Spain, the government had moved from Madrid to San Sebastian...
That might have wowed them in Goma, but it did little to stop the spread of rebellion. Almost a third of the nation was no longer under Leopoldville's control; as usual, government troops fled in panic at the very sight of the insurgents. And now a fourth front, potentially more dangerous than those in Kwilu, Kivu and Maniema provinces, had been opened only 100 miles north of Leopoldville. A band of uniformed, well-armed rebels crossed the Congo River border from neighboring Brazzaville Congo, took control of several towns and cut the vital Route Nationale, the combination...
...mark on him if he comes up here. I got a mark on me if I go down there." Still some Negroes would live almost anywhere else just to get out of the ghetto. "I felt caged, like an animal," said Writer James Baldwin, who fled to Greenwich Village and then to Europe. "I felt if I didn't get out I would slowly strangle." Poet Claude McKay put it another way 40-odd years ago when he described the Negro as feeling...