Word: flee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many others came across the Communist border uncounted, no one knew. In the nearby Portuguese colony of Macao, officials estimated that 20,000 Chinese refugees had fled their homeland in the past two months. Communist border guards, nominally under orders to shoot anyone attempting to flee Red China, now look the other...
...Arab tribesmen. The R.A.F. would drop leaflets on Arab villages demanding that they give up fugitive criminals or be bombed. Usually the trick worked, and the wanted man would be expelled from the threatened village, pursued through the desert, shot down or captured. On other occasions the population would flee the village, which the R.A.F. would then destroy. A fortnight ago in Britain's Aden Protectorate, which has been under desultory attack by the Imam of Yemen, the old technique was tried again...
...Mankiewicz. On location in South Viet Nam to film the Greene novel, his concern was simply to get a good shot of the Holy See at festival time. Cao Dai's Pope Pham Cong Tac was in Cambodian exile when Mankiewicz arrived, having deemed it wise to flee the country after some trouble with the government last year concerning his Vestal Virgins, but Vice Pope Bao The was more than glad to oblige...
...this point, Batista miscalculated. He pulled back all but a thin circle of troops, and waited for the rebels to surrender or flee. Instead, new recruits slipped through into the mountains almost daily. In sharp skirmishes, the rebels captured rifles and machine guns. Currently, the guerrillas are living well on pork, chicken, fresh fruit and vegetables from nearby farms, which Castro buys with personally autographed IOUs, payable "when the revolution wins." Operating in platoons of 22 men each, they sleep in the open, and in a different spot every night. They can strike and then disappear into the trees...
...leave: Endre Marton, a Hungarian citizen who for ten years has been Budapest correspondent for Associated Press, and his wife, United Press Stringer Ilona Nyilas. The Martons, who were imprisoned in 1955 on trumped-up espionage charges, explained last week that they had no other choice but to flee their country. Other correspondents complained that they were shadowed by secret police wherever they went, and threatened with expulsion if they spoke to any Hungarians outside a few government officials...