Word: flee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looked up to two Lamas or Living Buddhas: the Panchen Lama or spiritual head of Buddhism, and the Dalai Lama or temporal ruler. Squabbling between these two holy men (fostered, said some observers, by British agents who found the Dalai Lama much more tractable) caused the Panchen Lama to flee from his headquarters in Tibet to China where he travels about, oblivious to and unharmed by all civil wars...
...Usually a shark will vanish at sight of its mortal enemy with the sharp-bladed nose, but this shark "about 25 feet long," was intent on stealing a big bluefish that the men were pulling in. Shooting out of the blue deep came the swordfish. The shark turned to flee but it was too late. For 35 minutes the sea was lashed into bloody froth. Then all was calm and the shark, his long white belly gashed to ribbons, floated dead on the surface, drifted away to make a meal for his own kind...
Last week Nanking Theological Seminary was as excited as it had not been since the city was bombarded in 1927 and President Harry F. Rowe was forced to flee in trousers and shirt. According to press despatches, Nanking Seminary was to receive not merely wealth, but riches incredible. The news said $13,000,000. That would be more than the endowments of all missionary universities and schools in China put together.* In buying power it would equal $50,000,000 in the U. S. As if Princeton Theological Seminary were to get a billion...
...year. It contains a great deal of savagery, with a love story for sweetening. Trader Horn (oldtime Wild West Cinemactor Harry Carey) and his friend Little Peru find a white native goddess (Edwina Booth), daughter of a deceased missionary. She saves them from being roasted upside down. They flee. Eventually Mr. Carey prudently wraps a blanket around naively nude Miss Booth, sends her on to civilization with Peru, then heads off again into the wilderness...
Czechoslovak papers scare-headed that "King Alfonso will soon flee to his cousin's castle in the Slovak Alps...