Word: flee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benito Mussolini was under arrest and not under arrest; in solitary confinement and under house guard; seized while trying to flee Italy and seized in the Quirinal; held for his own safety and held for delivery to the Allies. If he dreamed of asylum somewhere abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt's warning to neutrals against such asylum shattered the dream...
...great 18th-Century British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish (discoverer of nitric acid, the chemical composition of water, etc.) was so unsociable that he "was known to flee from a company of strangers uttering a queer cry like a frightened animal"; he was also so unworldly that when asked for a handout for a sick employe, he offered...
...where their last stand was to be made. Some managed to flee across the water in barges and cockleshells...
...South and Central America live a considerable number of refugees from Nazi-occupied countries who would be glad to work for Uncle Sam. All those living at present south of the Rio Grande, who had to flee their native countries, will be forever grateful to the Latin American nations for the kind and generous hospitality they are receiving. The majority of these people, however, having families and relatives in the U.S., will try to join their relations as soon as the war is over. Why not let them now prove their eagerness to help...
...begin to crumble, his friend and partner, Nigel Bruce, is mysteriously murdered, and due to evident circumstances, Grant is suspected. Miss Fontaine is taken with fear of her husband, fear that he is a murderer and that she may be his next victim. She tries to flee from him, but he reaches her, and in the most depressingly "phoney" scene of the film, tells her the truth; that he is innocent. The ending to the original story, that the hero actually is the murderer, is replaced (to avoid jarring the public's emotions) by a happy Hollywood finale, which mildly...