Word: flee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Korean guerrillas were increasingly harassing the Allied rear. They attacked supply trains and raided stations, and caused many Korean villagers whose Allied sympathies were too well known to flee their homes. At Yongyong, the guerrillas destroyed six U.S. 155-mm. guns...
Wild animals in "freedom," says Dr. Hediger, are not really free. They follow restricted routines punctuated by terror. Each has a "territory" or a social rank from which it cannot budge without a battle. Each has enemies, including man, from which it must constantly flee. Wild animals are often hungry, sexually frustrated, diseased. Few of them reach maturity. The lucky ones, thinks Dr. Hediger, land in well-run zoos...
...Senior Spread. Far from being puerile, the Class Week of 1947 produced the first enunciation of the European Recovery Plan by General George O. Marshall, who, to Plumpton's mind, was the first statesman of heroic stature to appear since Bismarck. And in a frantic attempt to flee Cambridge, Pumpton piled up his roommate's Buick on the Worcester Turnpike and spent the summer in Stillman Infirmary. The bill, including repairs to the Buick...
...watched the Nationalist soldiers' dispirited attempt to beat back the Communists, and in besieged North China he talked to a group of miners whose conversation reflected the spirit of Nationalist China after a decade of war. Doyle, who could speak their own language, asked them if they would flee if the Communists came. "Flee?" asked one miner bitterly. "Flee where? To America?" Said another: "Nothing could be much worse than our life...
...fact that she was a famous screen star whose favorite film was Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Zealously shy and determined to cling to her privacy, Actress Arthur had ordered no more published. She also staunchly refused interviews, balked at a curtain speech, made it a point to flee from the theater (and stage-door crowds) without taking time to remove make-up or costume...