Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor Hague over station WEVD, an unidentified young woman, passing as a reporter, slipped into the studio. Edging up to the speaker, she hurled a handful of pepper into Mr. Hays's face (see cut, p. 20). "You lie, goddam you," she shouted into the microphone and fled before anyone could stop...
Next Japanese objective was another so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line." The first, an impressive array of cement pillbox forts strung across the Yangtze delta back of Shanghai, was supposed to defend Nanking, but the defenders simply fled, not waiting to be attacked (TIME, Nov. 29). This Hindenburg Line, much more heavily fortified and built under German military engineers during the past six years, was constructed to resist an attack from the north at just about the point the Japanese have reached this week, a few miles north of Suchow. But now, if the Japanese cannot take it from the north...
Chinese started looting and burning indiscriminately, Admiral Shen adopted the desperate expedient of having signs put up directing prospective looters to Japanese premises, in the hope that they would spare others. Finally the Admiral fled pell-mell with Tsingtao's Chinese police...
...panic that my refusal seemed to cause to my legation staff and to the officers of the ship made it quite clear to me what would have happened." said M. Barmine, explaining that he then left all his property and luggage in Athens, fled to France. "Perhaps," he continued, "I can get a job as a laborer in a French motor car factory." Last week he was temporarily saved from this necessity by an offer from the New York Times and North American Newspaper Alliance of a chance to write about the Government he served for 19 years...
...spot to which Generalissimo & Mme Chiang have fled was a military secret this week. Their job is now to wage against Japan such guerrilla warfare as General Sandino hurled from his Nicaraguan mountains against the forces of Calvin Coolidge. To such a resourceful man as Chiang the fight is not necessarily hopeless. Japan is not the U. S. Her resources have already been badly strained and it is conceivable that if the fight is sufficiently long and costly, it may break her economically. Nor is China Nicaragua. She is so large that any invader inevitably has long lines open...