Word: fleeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dignitaries were scurrying out of the hall. Women in evening gowns fled, leaving their high-heeled shoes behind. Men broke for the exits, leaving not only their top hats but. in many cases, on this hot night, their tail coats. President Tubman, unhurt and dignified as ever, did not flee...
...forward impassively on their weapons, expecting an infantry attack. 'We are completely encircled.' a report came through to us. Outside I could see a number of grotesquely related things: fire leaping from densely packed wooden shacks; a rat scurrying down a gutter to escape; refugees huddled or fleeing, silhouetted against the red backdrop, beneath the city-wide canopy of smoke. Here and there on the sidewalk lay pairs of wooden clogs; their owners had jumped out of them so they could flee more quickly, barefoot, to shelter...
DeMille's conception is so grandiose that his movie dominates the entire Paramount studio, occupying twelve of the 18 sound stages. To film the six-minute Red Sea sequence, where the waters part and close as the children of Israel flee the Egyptians, more space was found by breaking down fences and spreading out in the adjoining RKO lot (where razed buildings will eventually be replaced...
Between paternal beatings and political discipline, Valery decided one day in February that he had had enough. He tried to flee to the west on a commuters' train from East Berlin, but the Communist police plucked him off and sent him back. Later, an official at the Soviet School No. i called him in and showed him a letter directed to his father, who was on a trip to Moscow. The letter advised Lt. Col. Lysikov that Valery had fallen prey to "dangerous American influences," and had been formally condemned for them by the local youth group...
...recognized by the Big Three hold its elections. They were rigged to insure Communist control. Washington and London denounced them and U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane resigned in protest over them. Mikolajczyk, who was allowed no effective voice in the provisional government or in the elections, was forced to flee abroad for safety...