Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stopped that. A lone Chinese anti-aircraft gun atop an armored car waggled and wobbled, frantically failed to hit even one of six Japanese planes. Nine Chinese field batteries blazed valiantly, but along a five-mile front superior Japanese armament turned the battle's tide. Chinese units broke, fled for their lives across the frozen steppes...
...joke of his. They changed their minds when the bandits began to collect jewelry. While the robbers were at work Chauffeur William Matheson slipped to a telephone, in a whisper called police. Two officers arrived, were lined up with the victims by the gunmen who then lost their nerve, fled. The police gave chase, shooting and shot at, and recovered an overcoat containing nearly all the stolen jewelry, valued at $150,000. Three of the robbers were caught...
...allow the natives to resume their accustomed seats, he wrote long appeals to the people of Corsica for support, inserted them in all Corsican newspapers. In particular he wanted to know the whereabouts of Corsica's "mastermind," Andre Spada, the bandit chief. His home had been raided; he had fled farther into the mountains...
...political history. . . . The political situation in Colombia has shown no improvement. . . . Burma was affected during the year by a series of local disasters. ..." Lyrically of the Egyptian Agency (Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, etc.) it says: "There Pharaoh oppressed and Candace reigned, where Herod wantoned and Moses died, where Muhammad fled and the Mahdi slew. ..." Against these backgrounds are painted the labors of the Holy Bible salesmen. One entered an Austrian circus, sold Gospels to Japanese, Italian and Arabic performers. Trying unsuccessfully to circulate in the Eucharistic Congress at Carthage last year (TIME, May 19, 1930), one R. H. Robinson sold...
...Danville, Ind., two bandits entered the Thompson Drug Co. store, gave Clerk A. G. Kelleher a $20 bill, asked for change. When he opened the cash drawer they seized its contents, $11, and fled, leaving Clerk Kelleher with the $20 bill...