Word: flee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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French opposition. Urged to flee, the Sultan of Morocco said then: "The Americans are my friends. I will greet them here." General George S. Patton gave the Sultan a jeep with chrome fenders which is still the pride of his 58-car garage. Two months later, the Sultan met Franklin D. Roosevelt, was deeply impressed. By January 1944, an independence party, underground since the 1930s, emerged as theIstiqlal (Arabic for independence), broke out with a manifesto which quoted the Atlantic Charter. Independence seemed a splendid idea, even to old Hadj El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, leader of some...
...Cleveland. In February 1950, Vogeler appeared before the People's Court in Budapest, said that he had been instructed by the U.S. Army intelligence headquarters in Vienna to get special information about radar production, rockets, uranium and oil deposits in Hungary and to help atomic scientists to flee the country. He was sentenced to 15 years. Two of the Hungarians were executed. Sanders got 13 years...
...word that doomsday was approaching. "Voices from heaven" speaking incoherent foreign tongues had brought it to him. He translated for his congregation and reported that a great storm from the north was going to knock off all mankind-all, that is, who didn't sell their property and flee to the mountains...
...Morton Sobell, 33, college classmate of Rosenberg and an electronics research worker for the Government in World War II. He was the only one of the defendants to flee the U.S. (to Mexico) after the arrests of British Physicist Klaus Fuchs and Courier Harry Gold broke up the ring...
...Greenglasses decided not to flee-why neither ever fully explained. But they kept the $5,000. "It wasn't out of Julius Rosenberg's pocket," the witness explained. "It was out of the Russians' pocket, and I had had plenty of headaches...