Word: flee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last of Hungary's five days of freedom, Premier Imre Nagy knew that he had gone too far in giving in to the Hungarian rebels, in proclaiming Hungarian neutrality and denouncing the Warsaw Pact. He had to flee for his life. Being a Communist, and knowing that Communist vengeance extends to families, he gathered up ten other Hungarian political leaders and their families, including Julia Rajk, whose husband Laszlo Rajk had been executed as a Titoist in 1949. They all arrived at the back door of the Yugoslav embassy just in time. As Embassy Secretary Milovnov let them...
...Flee Now ... In Santa Fe. N.M., after two convicts kidnaped him, hijacked his auto, escaped from prison and put 450 miles on the car before getting caught, Penitentiary Guard Jose A. Vigil billed the state for their jaunt at 8? a mile, faced having to pay the tab himself after the attorney general's office stated that the car had been used "on an un authorized trip...
...made a "complete confession." According to the government spokesman, Swinburn headed "a dangerous espionage ring which worked for British intelligence and supplied it with information about the Egyptian armed forces." Swinburn's cook had told all, and Swinburn had been arrested just as he was about to flee the country (actually, Swinburn was about to go to London to be with his wife while she underwent surgery for cancer...
...materialist] system," he said, "confronts disjointed man, driven about as he is by a compulsion to flee and hide from God ... in the guise of exact science ... In the name of science God is explained as a mere reflex of a primitive state of fear . . . Thus the system promises man deliverance from God and, simultaneously, deliverance from the anxiety deep down in himself. Suppose the flaming cherub were not really posted before the closed gate of Paradise at all? Suppose the gate were unlocked and all you need do is to enter, in mighty concert with progressive humanity . . .? Would...
...scrappy, fanatic Franz Dahlem were two of its brightest stars and, hence, bitter rivals. Both were sent to take part in the Spanish civil war as political commissars. Both were soon ordered home, and Ulbricht obeyed, ending up in Moscow. But Dahlem stayed on until he had to flee Spain in defeat. He was interned in France, and subsequently turned over to the invading Germans. He wound up in a Nazi concentration camp. All this time, safe in Moscow, Ulbricht solidified his own position...