Word: fled
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...reason for the Communists' in tense interest in Dak Son, a hamlet of 2,000 Montagnard people, was that it was the new home and sanctuary of some 800 Montagnard refugees who 14 months ago fled from life under the Viet Cong in the surrounding countryside, where they had been forced to work in virtual slavery as farmers and porters. The Montagnards are the innocents of Viet Nam: primitive, peaceful, sedentary hill tribesmen. The women go bare-breasted and the men, who scratch out a living by farming and hunting with crossbows and knives, wear loincloths. The Viet Cong...
...became so enthralled with the world of dress design that plans were made to send him to Paris to become an apprentice in a major couture house. But Hitler's armies were threatening Europe, and instead of going to Paris, Rudi's mother, who died two years ago, fled with her only child to America just before the Anschluss in 1938. Gernreich...
...graduate fellowship in mathematics at Bryn Mawr, and now lives near Boston, where she works as a computer systems analyst. In all, she received more than 40 letters from Bonhoeffer while he was in prison; the 38 she was able to keep when she fled East Germany during the Russian invasion have been given to Harvard's Houghton Library, with the stipulation that they not be published without her permission during her lifetime. In an article about Bonhoeffer in the current issue of the Union Theological Seminary quarterly review, she quotes at length from several of the letters. What...
...discussed what he called his "most powerful experience," living through World War II in France. He and his mother were alone and part-Jewish. When Hoffmann was II, the Nazis occupied Paris, where they were living, and he and his mother fled to Nice, first unoccupied and later controlled by the easy-going Italians. In 1943, Italy capitulated and the Germans took over. The Hoffmanns dwelt in terror; many of their countrymen--expatriate Austrians--were picked up by the Gestapo...
After three harrowing months, the Hoffmanns fled to a hamlet of 800 people on the Mediterranean coast, where their heritage would be safely obscured. Nine months later, in August of 1944, the Allies liberated France...