Word: flees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Peronistas brought up a bill to call a convention for amending the Constitution of 1853, the opposition knew that it was time to fight or flee. They fought...
Even so, those who can flee by land are looked on as far better off than those who cannot leave at all. The travelers go by foot or by horsecart. The cart and horses (usually two) are a risk. At best they can be sold along the way for part of the original cost. At worst they will be confiscated by the military; when that happens, the owner had best be humble and pretend he is giving them up as a gift...
...General Karel Janousek, wartime commander of the Czech air force in Britain, was condemned to death for treason when he tried to flee the country. (The sentence was commuted to 18 years at hard labor.) Seventeen other Czech air force men managed to escape to Britain in a "borrowed" plane...
...this was also a society in which his class and the ideology, of his class could play no part. Admiring its positive achievements but unable to adjust himself to its conditions, he chose suicide as a resolution of this conflict. This was certainly a more honorable solution than to flee to Washington and reaction in the manner of Mikolajczyk and Nagy...
Illah, three pairs of royal swans.* Then angry Iraqis in Bagdad rejected the treaty (TIME, Feb. 2) and forced their chief negotiator, Prime Minister Saleh Jabr, to flee to Trans-Jordan scrunched down in the back seat of his car with bullets whistling after. No one remembered to call off the shipment of swans...