Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind the lines, in central Finland, Russian planes dropped men by parachute. These men were Karelians and Finnish Communists who had fled to Russia after the Communist Party was outlawed in 1930. Last week they were back to plague the country, spying out the Army's movements, cutting communications, trying to spread dissatisfaction among the Finns, who sometimes mistook them for loyal brethren. Police rounded up many of these spies, warned the populace to beware of them, but how many were still at large at week's end no one knew...
...poor are getting poorer," Fritz Thyssen, German steel tycoon, lamented last week in a caustic interview on Nazi Germany. He spoke to New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews at Locarno, Switzerland, whither he fled last November...
...rival forces sat quiescent. There had been a lull ever since the Japanese capture of Hankow in October 1938. The Japanese were waiting for Wang Ching-wei's defection from the Chungking Government and the subsequent collapse (they hoped) of Chiang Kai-shek's regime. Wang fled but Chiang stayed. That meant the Japanese would have to fight some more. Their plan was to try to engulf Chungking in a giant pincer, north and south. A sudden drive, almost unresisted, took Nanchang to the South. But then the Chinese had a series of successes greater than any they...
...seven years. Last year, its suburbs full of Japanese soldiers, Shanghai started another and less healthy boom, still booming. Factories, upcountry traders, panicky Chinese moved into the International Settlement for safety. Since no passport control blocks entry to the Settlement, refugees from all the world's political hotspots fled there-Czechs, Poles, German and Austrian Jews. Country View Apartments, aptly named when built before the Japanese invasion, now look on rows of smoking chimneys. The Chinese dollar, worth 30 American cents in 1937, has declined to 7; rents and prices have correspondingly soared...
Pollak was at a complete loss for words. After being disengaged from Cutler and hoisted up to the surface, he fled from the pool and from the chagrined looks of the disappointed swimmers...