Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After months of this treatment, Eddison fled the country and eventually made his way to the United States. He is now working on his dissertation at Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy...
...foyer of the U.S. embassy (even as American Charge d'Affaires Thomas Enders assured the capital's populace that "the enemy is failing"). The Australian and British embassies have sandbagged their front entrances, and half of the city's 5,000 French residents have fled...
...women. Thus traditionalist, some might say male-chauvinist pastors have found it a welcome refuge. But even in Bavaria times are changing. Among other innovations, a bishop can now give special permission to a woman to celebrate the Eucharist. Irritated by this incursion, three Bavarian Lutheran pastors have fled their church in recent months and have begun studies to become Roman Catholic priests...
...should be strongly emphasized that the same comparisons were made by many American citizens of Eastern European descent who fled from their native countries at the close of the Second World War. Those refugees left their native countries because they considered Communism the curse and pestilence of mankind...
After 20 hours of fighting, the rebels retreated. In their wake they left hundreds dead; the central marketplace, the Roman Catholic Cathedral and more than half of the town were in smoldering ruins. More than 25,000 refugees were without shelter, water and rice; another 35,000 fled by boat to Zamboanga on Mindanao-an island that itself is racked with Moslem insurgency...