Word: fled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forward, then back, but was cut off by the mayor's car maneuvering out of an adjacent parking spot. Lindsay climaxed the confrontation by leaping out of his car to bellow again: "I told you to get this car out of here -now move!" At which the driver fled in panic...
...conspires to oust them, the hippies have been setting up well-organized but acephalous communes, with ordinances that prescribe nonviolence and charity. "We're not political," explained Gretchen Dickson, a 17-year-old blonde from Pittsburgh. "We just want to be beautiful." To relieve tension, many hippies have fled higher up into the mountains. But some 10,000 more are expected to pass through Taos this summer as word of its pristine seclusion gets around...
While out on the town for a few beers in 1956, an Army sergeant named James O'Callahan broke into the hotel room of a teen-age girl on Waikiki Beach. There was a scuffle, the girl screamed, O'Callahan fled. He was later arrested by Hawaiian civilian police, turned over to the military for prosecution and charged with housebreaking, assault and attempted rape. At a court-martial, O'Callahan was convicted and given ten years at hard labor-a penalty harsher than he could have expected from many a civilian court...
Temple Fielding! The receptionist turned and fled to an inner office, looking for someone in authority. Fielding had blown his cover. In the multilingual world of espionage, the professionals call it hosen herunterlassen?literally, dropping one's trousers. Fielding could hardly have caused more of a flurry at Brown's if he had literally done so. No wonder. An estimated 2,000,000 Americans will visit Europe this year, and an impressive number of them will follow a trail carefully blazed in advance by Temple Hornaday Fielding, at 55 the archon of U.S. guidebook writers...
...STARTED about fifty years ago, when the movie industry came to California and brought a crew of undesirables along with it. The directors eventually fled to Italy, but the industry's gooey sludge hung around long enough to smile its way into political power and saddle the state with Ronnie and George...