Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...m.p.h. It sucked up roofs, tore huge limbs from trees, and lifted the debris as high as half a mile into the sky. Said Roy Styles: "I crawled under a mattress, and that's all that saved me because the walls fell in." Cindy Trott, 22, fled to a science building at Midwestern State University for safety. Said she: "It didn't look like a tornado until it got up close to you. Then you could see all the lumber and junk swirling around, and we were panicked." When the storm passed, she hurried to her family...
...country. After an impassioned prayer meeting in Rawalpindi's Liaquat Gardens, 5,000 grieving Pakistanis clashed with police, hurling glass and rocks at buses and cars. One bus was burned before police dispersed the crowd with tear gas. "We are fed up," said an office worker as he fled for shelter. "Our own leaders are the enemy. Zia should hang by the same rope...
Residents panicked as the tremors continued until late afternoon, and they fled into open fields and olive groves to spend the night...
After kicking and punching the student, the attackers fled without stealing anything. The student, who was unhurt, then called the police to report the incident...
...that the burly dictator is still in Kampala; earlier, there had been speculation that the Libyans had flown Uganda's President-for-Life to safety in Tripoli, where Amin is said to have sent members of his family some weeks ago. There were also rumors that Amin had fled to Arua, a town in northwest Uganda that had been prepared as a last redoubt...