Word: fled
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...Germany during the War, she was driven from Greece with her husband in 1917. A year later when Constantine was reported near death from an old wound, rumor spread that she had stabbed him. In 1920 King Constantine was restored to his throne. Two years later she again fled with him to Italy. There she watched him die. while her son. King George II, ruled Greece for a year before he too was dethroned. The rest of her life, until a few months before she died, was spent in a villa in Florence with three of her children, Prince Paul...
...Hirohito of Japan as "an unfortunate failure." A mob swept out of the Japanese quarter of the city and methodically kicked the offices of the Min Kuo Daily News apart. Then they burned the local headquarters of the Kuomintang (Nationalist) Party. Thousands of Chinese gathered up their belongings and fled to the back country...
While the disconcerted attendant telephoned for police, the woman snatched her child, fled...
...Nanking nervous, high-strung little Chinese President Chiang Kaishek, who has been squabbling for months with the other Chinese Government (the one at Canton), abruptly resigned, announcing that Canton leaders would come north and take over the Nanking,Government. Panic stricken, Mrs. Chiang (Wellesley '17) fled by plane from Nanking to safety in the International Settlement at Shanghai...
...November 1923 occurred the famous Beer Putsch, when Adolf Hitler in a black frock coat, scowling over his smudge of a mustache, marched into the biggest beer garden in Munich, the "Burgerbraukeller," and proclaimed the National Socialist Revolution. There was a riot in the Odeonplatz. Adolf Hitler fled to the mountain village of Uffing and took refuge in the cottage of a devoted follower: Ernst Fritz Hanfstaengel, Harvard 1909, one-time Manhattan art dealer...