Word: fled
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Part of the jet cut through the roof of one house. Engines, fuselage, cargo, bodies cascaded with thundering crunches onto the street; rivulets of jet fuel skittered and splashed crazily and ignited into billows of flame, which in turn touched off the gasoline tanks of parked cars. Panicky tenants fled from a row of burning brownstone rooming houses. The empty Pillar of Fire Church (evangelical) turned into an inferno. Two men selling Christmas trees on a corner, a snow shoveler near by, and eight other Brooklynites were killed instantly...
...general. As his plane grew nearer, the plotters' fortunes began to wane. They could not even secure control of all Addis Ababa, and shells whistled into the center of town from loyalist army posts. In frustration, the rebels shot a few government officials they had captured and then fled into the mountains. Haile Selassie landed at Asmara to wild cheers and the usual earth-scraping bows...
Gradually Kong Le's men retreated-to the outskirts of town, then to the airport (his only supply line to the Communists). Caught in a deadly barrage, 1,500 surrendered and the rest fled into the jungle country that the Pathet Lao controls. As Vientiane counted its dead (an estimated 200), TIME Reporter James Wilde cabled: "The streets were littered with broken glass, shattered bricks, mangled cars, shell cases, abandoned trucks and Jeeps. In the center of town I passed bodies covered with a cloth or a bamboo mat. Funeral pyres lit the sky. Here and there the sidewalks...
...later let Huck Finn put it: "At first I hated the school, but by and by I got so I could stand it. Whenever I got uncommon tired, I played hookey, and the hiding I got next day done me good and cheered me up." Clemens himself fled school by the time...
...Gaulle. Not one of them was in either Algeria or France. General Salan has been sulking in Spain for six weeks. Young, red-bearded Pierre Lagaillarde, given "provisional liberty'' by the military tribunal trying him for his part in last January's insurrection in Algiers, fled to Spain last week, asking for political asylum. His friends in Algiers were dismayed. "I can't understand what came over Pierre," moaned one. "His trial was going so well!" Jacques Soustelle, the most dangerous man of all and De Gaulle's most gifted opponent, curiously chose last week...