Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Where did Mr. Borah get his brand new explosive opinions? U. S. politicos were not so much at a loss. They understood that the Senator was raised with nine brothers and sisters on an Illinois farm. They knew how-to get away from it all-he studied law and fled to bad Boise in woolly Idaho. In the years since the death of Henry Cabot Lodge, they have beheld how Borah's tongue has grown golden, how he has leaned out and blossomed as Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, how now he walks in the full stature...
Convict James McGrath and Convict John Weirman sped across the Delaware River bridge toward Morrisville, Pa. Near Oxford Valley, Pa., they wrecked their machine, fled into a cornfield. Two airplanes went aloft and began to circle the cornfield looking for the hiding convicts. The afternoon waned...
...noted by correspondents in most Vatican clerics with whom they talked, was news: unofficially and without permitting quotation, Vatican authorities expressed the opinion that the act of disestablishment will lead to the restoration of His Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII who, as the Vatican recalled, never abdicated but only fled from Spain (TIME, April...
Whampoa. With a Japanese war boat still lying in almost every Chinese port last week, numberless Chinese fled inland from their homes. Ten thousand fled from President Chiang's own Nanking. Then in Nanking arrived British Minister Sir Miles Lampson and U. S. Minister Nelson Trusler Johnson with his bride. Chinese who had fled at once came back. The Japanese war boats in the harbor would not fire, figured the Chinese, so long as there was any risk of hitting Sir Miles or the Johnsons, bride & groom...
...Rashly approaching Mukden, 1,000 Chinese soldiers were met by Japanese five miles outside the city, skirmished bravely for nine hours, were routed, fled...