Word: flee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boycotted the markets. Meanwhile, Hungary's military and aristocracy were rallying to another banner, that of Admiral Nicholas Horthy, a former naval aide to the Emperor Franz Josef and a naval hero in World War I. Horthy organized a counterrevolution to oust Kun, and Kun was forced to flee to Vienna (he later turned up in Russia, where Stalin executed...
...opponents. Kovacs was sent to Siberia (where, after nearly nine years, he was released a few months ago). In 1947, with his four-year-old son held hostage, the Smallholders' Premier Ferenc Nagy, the last hope of a free Hungary, was forced to resign and flee into exile...
...rate of 2,400 a day, Hungarians continued to flee west over the Austrian border. Though well below last month's peak daily rate of 8,500, the arrival of more thousands left great numbers of people to be fed, cared for, and-with luck-moved elsewhere. At week's end there were some 73,786 refugees in Austria. In all, 121,504 Hungarians have crossed the frontier since Oct. 28. The U.S. has agreed to take 21,500. France, Britain and Canada have set no limits...
...experiences, as told to one of his closest confidants, Father Josef Vecsey, 43, who grew up as a neighbor of Mindszenty's. As soon as the cardinal was liberated by the Hungarian revolution. Vecsey rushed to his side, had long talks with him before being forced to flee the country...
...Mikolajczyk told him on one occasion. Gomulka leaped from his chair, his hand on the gun he carried in his pocket, but Mikolajczyk calmly asked for a cigarette. Said Gomulka: "We'll get the people. And we'll get you." Two years later, Mikolajczyk was forced to flee into exile, and the only "democrats" left in the Polish government were Communist stooges...