Word: flees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British of encouraging a Habsburg restoration. Tildy still denied any uneasiness; he was quietly fishing in Lake Balaton last week, and telling callers: "I will not resign, I never intended to resign, I never attempted to resign." In spite of these protestations, he was, in fact, trying to flee the country of which he was President...
Written by Jacques Deval, "Tovaritch" tells the story of a Russian nobleman and his wife who are compelled to flee their country when the Communist revolution was successful...
Hanfstaengl said he was basing his claims on the debts he incurred while living in England and Switzerland during the war. He said that he had been forced to flee Germany when, following his discharge as foreign propagandist, the Nazis marked him for murder...
...three days & nights of terror, in Rawalpindi proper the situation is now fairly quiet, but in the surrounding countryside there is a reign of lawlessness on a scale not known in British India since the Mutiny of 1857. Every village is prey to roving gangs. Groups of scared refugees flee through the fields as gangs of 15 to 30 men trudge the highways, armed with long, dangerous-looking clubs. From the crest of one hill, I could see five villages burning. At Mandra junction at dawn on March 9, 2,000 Moslems swooped down on Hindu and Sikh quarters, looted...
...German John Metaxas to form an iron dictatorship which lasted till World War II. It was then that George had his moment of greatness. When the Greek people inspired the world by fighting against Italy with Thermopylaean courage, George found stirring words to lead them (before he had to flee the country): "All together, men, women, children of Hellas, rise up, clench your fists, stand at my side to defend the country . . . soldiers in the vanguard of that freedom which has sprung from the sacred bones of the Greeks. Forward, sons of Hellas, in the fight for body and soul...