Word: flees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rivera was just and tolerant compared to the oppressions of the present Madrid-Valencia regime. Every day they are killing men and women simply because they are suspected of having independent opinions. All the intelligentsia of Spain, with the exception of a few who favor Communism, have had to flee for their lives out of the part of our country controlled by Largo Caballero. I wish to express my disillusionment in Republican Spain and my remorse for having taken part in creating...
...same day he is forced to flee to Switzerland where on of his ex-partners, a police official who fears that he might tell too much, has him murdered and then makes it appear a suicide. This leaves Niki free to marry Antony Wayne, the diplomat, who has been lurking in the offing...
...eyewitness report of the battle, gathered enough material from fellow-eyewitnesses to fill a trunk. When these notes were all burnt in a riot, he set to and did the job a second time. Back in Russia after the war, Novikoff-Priboy became a known revolutionary, had to flee the country. He left his Tsushima notes with his brother, who hid them so well he forgot where he had put them. After the Revolution, Novikoff-Priboy returned to Russia. One day when his nephew was clearing out an old shed he found his uncle's missing papers, tucked away...
...partly lupine, wholly credible. Born in Paris in the stormy year 1848, Paul Gauguin had a stormy mixture in his veins. His father W'as a French radical, his mother half-Peruvian. After Louis Napoleon's coiup d'état in 1851, the Gauguins had to flee the country. On the long voyage to Peru, Father Gauguin died. His widow and her two children stayed in Peru four years before returning to France. After he had finished school, young Paul shipped as a sailor. Six years of the sea and the army whipped him into a tough...
...highways were out of use. Big Slough levee gave way and thousands of acres of rich Greene County were flooded. Army Engineers tried to save the St. Francis River levees in Missouri, but in the face of rising water or- dered their 1,500 workers and their families to flee for their lives. At Blytheville, Ark. guards were posted on the Mississippi levees with orders to "shoot to kill" if any Tennesseean crossed the river to dynamite the levee to save his own land. The Tennessee militia was posted as usual on its side to keep Arkansans and Missourians from...