Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pilgrims fled in terror, many fell, panic threatened. "The camel! The camel!" screamed some of the quick-witted. From the rear of the procession a brave cameleer spurred his loose-lipped beast forward to give the conciliatory bite. Fearful of its ears, the mad elephant fled trumpeting to the river, was eventually rounded up by two workmanlike tame elephants...
...bank the counterfeit trail was followed. It led last week to an order bidding German and Swiss police to arrest on sight one Franz Fischer, prominent a decade ago in the German Communist Party, but of recent years a personage of nebulous though prosperous obscurity. "Franz Fischer has fled from his flat," read a succinct Berlin police communiqué. But a somewhat loquacious official said, without allowing himself to be named in quotation: "He was probably only a fence. The gang must have a big print shop somewhere, with a large staff of experts, or they could never produce such...
...some robbers entered the Partos pantry, ate a box of Dr. Partos' pills, became sick, fled without their booty...
...crowd eddied out upon Boston Common where was displayed a Coast Guard recruiting sign, guarded by Chief Water Tender George Briggs. "Dirty murderers!" cried the crowd as it became a mob, knocked down Briggs. tore his recruiting poster to shreds, kicked its frame to bits about the Common. Briggs fled in a taxi...
...Guardsmen's Story: The speedboat was a known narcotic and liquor runner; stop signals and warning shots were unheeded; the craft was fired on as it fled guiltily away; not until half an hour later was it found, docked, the dying Downey in the cockpit waving his hand feebly. Although the guardsmen found neither drugs nor liquid aboard, they emphasized the fact that Downey was out on bail, charged with smuggling...