Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began taking on cargo for West Africa too. The ships and their Nazi crews were on their way to Ifni, a small Spanish bite in the Atlantic bulge of French Morocco, to run guns to the 150,000 Moorish tribesmen, followers of the "Blue Sultan" Merebbi Rebbo Mehammedan, who fled there before advancing French troops (TIME, March 26), and to start again France's painful Moroccan wars just after final pacification of Morocco had been announced...
Nazis busied themselves during the week at the expense of the Jews in the Bavarian town of Gunzenhausen. It began when storm troopers piled into a Jewish saloon to reprimand an "Aryan" at the bar. In the excitement a Jew spat on a storm trooper. He got away somehow, fled from house to house, finally hanged himself. Meanwhile the whole town had turned out for a finish fight. A little racial war rammed up and down the streets of Gunzenhausen for hours. Soon the jail was jammed with prisoners, all Jews, and the wounded of both sides crawled home...
...remember the hunting lodge. His benefactress, the great Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, had fled there as a young mother with her cowardly, dying Emperor, in 1860, when British and French troops marched on Peking. When Revolution blew Pu Yi, a six-year-old boy, off the throne of the Manchus in 1912, he was locked in the Winter Palace at Peiping. He did not enjoy Manchu pomp, preferred his tennis court and bicycle...
...double walls of Jericho fell as related, probably as the result of an earthquake which may also have caused the damming of the River Jordan described in Psalm 114: The sea saw it and fled: Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. Not a scrap of metal was found in Jericho, thus bolstering the statement in Joshua: And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house...
...grimy little Greek freighter, the Maiotis, on which the fugitive Chicagoan fled from Greece to escape return to the United States to face trial for fraud, passed the Turkish port of Chanak, on the Straits, where the ship was inspected by local officials...