Word: flees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislation makes it a Federal offense to: 1) send ransom notes or kidnap threats across state lines; 2) kill or assault Federal officers on duty; 3) flee across state lines to avoid prosecution for a felony or testifying in a criminal case. The new laws likewise authorize the death penalty for kidnappers who fail to return their victims unharmed...
...night. His son Samuel Jr. went with him as far as Milan whence the old man fled alone to Athens. Instead of bravely facing the music, he had elected to become a hounded man, to ask hospitality of aliens, to finagle with outlandish courts and people, to flee on a scummy little freighter, to lie in shabby hotels, and finally to be cornered in a common jail in Istanbul and carried home captive. The Crack Up. Such disgrace followed, by only a few years, public honors. In 1931, on the 50th anniversary of Insull's arrival...
...Allies would not like the idea of a new nation, one third as big as all Europe, blocking the way to India and the East, but the Arabs believed the Wartime promise. So did the mysterious Colonel Lawrence until his disgust at the duplicity of politicians caused him to flee theatrically from the world...
...centuries the "scared money" of Europe has lied to Switzerland before revolution and tyranny. Many a White Russian, German Jew, Austrian Socialist and anti-Fascist Italian has his money in Swiss banks. The Swiss know that if ever they go off gold, "scared money" will flee from Switzerland for new sanctuary...
...late he arranged a humiliating merger with his Christian rival. And then things really began to happen to the Oppermanns. Berthold, confronted with the choice of a public recantation or expulsion from his school, committed suicide. Gustav, who had signed a manifesto against the Nazis, was persuaded to flee the country just before a raiding party came to ''search" his house. Martin was arrested in the middle of the night, taken to jail and beaten. Edgar was expelled from his hospital; on the bandages of the patient he had just operated on was rubber-stamped: "I have been...