Word: fled
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Four of them were young Portuguese citizens, who fled what they called the "fascist regime" in their country. They asked that their names be withheld for fear that the elite Portuguese PIDE-- International Police in Defense of the State--would uncover them...
...Asia as an adviser to the Siamese government. In 1933 he was named assistant secretary of state, and six years later went to the Philippines, then a U.S. possession. Sayre's appointment ended abruptly when, after enduring two months of Japanese bombing in a Corregidor tunnel, he fled the island by submarine...
Last week the poly-Papadopoulos added another title. He brusquely de posed General George Zoitakis, who had been Regent and acting head of state since King Constantine fled the country following an unsuccessful countercoup. The ouster of Zoitakis was voted unanimously by Greece's 17-member rubber-stamp Cabinet last week, ostensibly because the Regent had refused to approve a new law increasing personnel in the security forces and national fire department. Within half an hour Papadopoulos had been "requested" to succeed the general as Regent. Under pictures of Constantine and his Danish-born Queen Anne-Marie, Greece...
...ballots cast in the National Assembly (the others were left blank or deliberately mismarked). The vote, however, demonstrated the urgency of the regime's plan to hold new popular elections for the Assembly-the first since before Chiang and his 2,000,000 Nationalist followers fled to Taiwan...
When Moses and the Israelites fled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago, God sent a strong wind to divide the waters of the Red Sea so they could escape Pharaoh's army. The Israelites marched on dry ground between two walls of water. Or did they? So it says in Exodus 14, and so it is depicted in Cecil B. De Mille's film The Ten Commandments. But most biblical scholars nowadays believe that the Exodus story, like such other Old Testament accounts as Jonah and the "great fish" and Adam and Eve, are not strictly historical...