Word: fled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...England history, bloodhounds bayed through the woods around the Bridgewater State Hospital, 25 miles south of Boston, where he had been held; police, on foot, in cars and a helicopter, searched the area for DeSalvo and the two other inmates-a wife slayer and a robber-who had fled with him. The trio had used a key they made in prison to unlock their cell doors. DeSalvo's brothers were arrested and charged with being accessories after the fact; within recent months DeSalvo had transferred $2,600 in veterans' and Social Security payments to them...
Giving the Lie. Yet the Viet Cong made themselves scarce, unwilling to hold anything that the attackers wanted to take. Even before the assault began, most of them apparently fled across the border into Cambodia-giving the lie to Prince Norodom Sihanouk's statement last week that his country was not being used as a Viet Cong sanctuary. As the Americans, aided by South Vietnamese forces, moved cautiously through the area, the ground was still so hot from napalm that the troops were unable to crouch; the only survivors of the scorched earth seemed to be millions of aggressive...
...early '30s, the New School had gained a certain vogue as a center of night-school uplift for left-wing intellectuals. It acquired new academic respectability in the mid-'30s by creating a "University in Exile" on the talents of about 50 European scholars who had fled fascism in Germany and Italy and formed a Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science at the New School...
...people to trust or respect you by tricking them." Furthermore, he continued, "the Party gains nothing by sponging off the movement." Suppose the Party took over the leadership of SDS, he continued. "We'd only have to infiltrate the next organization that the SDS followers fled to." It is far more practical, Zagarelle contended, to allow diversity among radical groups and work within the membership of each group. History has proved, he continued, that the support from the rank and file is more important than control of the leadership...
...botches the job with a rope thick enough to tie up an ocean liner. In Act II, he simmers down to melancholy and despair, possibly induced by the "death of God" he keeps talking about, or by revisiting the Central European town from which he had fled as a refugee, or by both. In Act III, he finally hangs himself on a meat hook in the back kitchen of his London delicatessen. The prevailing lack of cheer is not noticeably alleviated by the play's billing as "a new comedy...