Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Associated Press reported that Leary plans to work with the Algiers office of the Black Panther Party, opened recently by Panther information minister Eldridge Cleaver, who fled there to keep from being returned to prison by his parole board...
Remaining Suspects. With only Valeri in custody, Boston police, Massachusetts state troopers and FBI agents combed the Northeast for the remaining suspects. Bond, Saxe and Power are believed to have fled in Susan Saxe's black Volkswagen. Late last week a man identified as Gilday stole a car at gunpoint in New Hampshire and was later spotted by police near Lowell, Mass. After a high-speed chase and gun battle in which one policeman was wounded, he wrecked his car but managed to escape once more...
...when Hussein gave his troops permission to tackle the guerrillas once and for all. The King was in a predicament that had been aggravated for years by the same Arab leaders who last week were castigating him for brutality. It was to Jordan that the bulk of the Palestinians fled after Israel was created in 1948, and it was in Jordan's sprawling refugee camps that the guerrilla movement flourished-and began undermining the government. Other Arabs, to keep on the good side of the fedayeen, supported them and ignored Hussein's problem. Nevertheless, having decided...
...signature for payment, he merely typed his last name in and ran laughing all the way to the bank. It was the firm's bank that noticed the ever-mounting number of checks made out to him for large amounts. Realizing the firm was on to something, he fled the scene and hid for two months in a bordello in Paris' 16th Arrondissement before being arrested...
...avoiding tendency lies at the very root of American character. This nation was settled and continuously repopulated by people who were not personally successful in confronting the social conditions of their mother country, but fled these conditions in the hope of a better life. This series of choices (reproduced in the westward movement) provided a complex selection process- repopulating America disproportionately with a certain kind of person...