Word: flees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home crumpled and smashed an old man, screaming curses, flung himself forward as if to stem the implacable advance. Carabineers seized him, hustled him away with other screaming protestants, who would not leave their vineyards. A woman whose father had been hurt in the 1906 eruption refused to flee because a passage in his will forbade it. Stubbornly, like angry rioters retreating from a row of bayonets, they backed through the village, the bubbling, smoking mass ever but a few yards away. Imperceptibly, it slowed down. The villagers watched fearfully. It stopped. They fell to their knees, crying thanksgiving...
...cries of "Christ is King" they sat down and soon partook of the feast of the Eucharist. Untroubled by the transitory rebel occupation of Cocula, General Calles wired to President Emilio Portes Gil: "I have the honor to inform you that the traitor Escobar (rebel generalissimo) continues to flee without fighting, and we continue our advance...
...families. The man is a double-dyed dastard. As military gov- ernor of Shantung Province under the late, great War Lord Chang Tso-lin (TIME. July 2), Marshal Chang Tsung-chang bled the people to ruin and starvation with outrageous taxes before he was driven out and forced to flee to Japan (TIME, Sept. 24) by the present Nationalist Govern ment at Nanking. The return of Dastard Chang from Japan at the head of a band of military adventurers (TIME, March 4), and his capture of Chefoo last week bode untold evil to the wretched, famine-stricken people of Shantung...
...next day (March 26) money opened not at 9%, but at 12%. It rose to 15%, exceeding the previous day's high. Another and a greater selling wave set in−especially in coppers. The amateurs fled even faster than the day before and hundreds who did not flee were sold out, adding to the casualties. And money still rose...
...ascended St. Peter's throne, liberal, popular. Two years later Italy became so liberal, so revolutionary that he had to flee from the Vatican disguised. The year 1850 saw him once more on the throne. French bayonets had effected his return. But his liberalism was gone...