Word: fleeing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...then to local draft boards throughout the U. S., went computations of the first quotas to be called by November's end. Nearly everywhere, enough registrants had volunteered to supply the first 30,000 trainees. No man was accepted just because he had volunteered; rascals who hoped to flee family responsibilities were turned down cold. Some tried to evade service before they were called. Thousands of letters from parents, wives, sweethearts, employers deluged Director Dykstra 's office, pleading for exemptions. All such requests were referred to local draft boards. Here & there a local board did not have enough...
...Friedrich E. Auhagen, former Columbia University professor, who was arrested as he was about to flee to Japan, had squealed, named taciturn, square-faced Drager as the mastermind. Dies Committee raids on German organization offices had produced confirming evidence...
...same unreality surrounding them. There are the same successes with minor characters, the same fine ear for idiom. There is the same power to create fantastic episodes, like Piggy Logan's inane marionette show, or the pathetic account of the little Jewish lawyer who attempts to flee the Third Reich and gets caught. There is Wolfe's vast, ever-welling pity for all lowly, downcast little people who mainly populate the earth, his deep, constantly iterated, constantly irritated concern for his integrity as man and artist. Above all, there is Thomas Wolfe's cosmic sense of Thomas...
With this small force strategically placed, the British hoped to held the eastern Mediterranean. If the Italians succeeded in taking Egypt and the Canal by land or sea, the British Fleet or what remained of it might flee, the Canal might be blocked, but Egypt's teeming millions, whose bond to the British, whom they dislike, is only that they dislike the Italians more, could offer no opposition. There would be imminent danger that the Arabs of Palestine, still piqued at Britain's unfulfilled promises of 1915, would revolt. And certainly the termini at Haifa and Tripoli...
Forced to flee his British Ministry of Information job in Paris when the victorious German columns entered the city, Maugham made his way south through the chaos of collapsing France while London papers listed him as missing. For days he waited for some means of transportation, finally received orders to embark on one of two colliers sent to rescue British subjects from the Riviera...