Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...natty blue-and-white beach jacket and Hollywoodish sunglasses. Sparking the livelier set, the Electrical Workers' Carey demonstrated fancy dives from handstands on the high board. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany appeared in beach regalia featuring sun hat and cigar. But taking his cue from Reuther, Meany, growling, fled from the beach when photographers swarmed around...
First List. When British and French invaded Egypt in 1956, Joseph Smouha, then 80, fled to Paris, taking with him all his kinfolk and household, numbering about 60. The Egyptians sequestrated his property. In Cairo last month the Egyptians agreed to pay $87 million compensation for 1) expropriated British-owned rural property, and 2) "damage" to sequestrated urban properties now to be returned to their owners. Afterward, going over the papers its negotiators had initialed, the Treasury in London "noticed that some figures didn't seem to be in the right column." Among other things, Smouha City was classified...
...three Syrians set out in the rainswept dusk for Kobeyat, passing through a spectral countryside of deserted, barren hills. As they rounded a curve on the approach to the village, the night crackled with gunfire. Father Genadrios was killed in the first fusillade. The cabby stopped his car and fled...
...Batista regime suddenly collapsed, few were prepared for the event. The A.P. in Havana moved a Dec. 31 dispatch-based on but not credited to a Batista bulletin-to the effect that Castro's rebels were on the run. While this story was rolling off U.S. presses, Batista fled Cuba...
Secret Life. The Privilege Was Mine, written by a Russian princess who fled after the Revolution in 1920 (at the age of 13) and returned 37 years later as the wife of a Belgian diplomat, is filled with insights that ring true and glitters with revealing conversations with all sorts of citizens from peasants to party leaders. It also offers evidence that nationalism knows no distinction between political systems. Though an antiCommunist, the princess is firmly on the side of the Kremlin when she feels Russia's historic interests are involved. In writing of the bloody suppression...