Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them, who had obeyed Sullivan's order to surrender, were kicked and beaten. Inside the embassy, about 70 staffers and a few other people sought refuge in a corridor outside Sullivan's office while Marines covered their retreat. When the guerrillas burst into the embassy, the group fled to the building's east wing, where the communications equipment was housed. While some of the staffers crowded into the locked communications room, a dozen employees hastily shoved classified papers into burn bags that were thrown into an incinerator. A radio operator used a heavy sledgehammer to pulverize electronic...
...declared a ward of the state for medical purposes only. The parents retained custody, but chemotherapy was administered at state expense. Chad's health improved. When the Greens asked the state courts for permission to give their son Laetrile as well, it was denied. Last month the Greens fled to Tijuana with Chad, placing him in a clinic headed by Dr. Ernesto Contreras, who advocates Laetrile for its psychological benefits, rather than as a cure for cancer...
...Mossadeq learned of the plans. When the Commander of the Imperial Guard arrived to deliver the decree to the prime minister he was arrested. The army remained loyal to Mossadeq and significantly the mobs hired by the CIA were unable to stir up popular enthusiasm for the Shah, who fled to Rome. The CIA was not invincible. The successful coup only came about because Roosevelt was able to learn lessons from his mistakes and because dissatisfaction grew among Mossadeq's supporters...
...ROMANS never made it to Persia. Twenty centuries later, the Germans couldn't break through either. But by 1953, American agents managed to move directly to the heart of Iranian politics, placing Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi on the throne his father had fled in 1941. And once he disappeared behind the awesome symbols and deadly trappings of autocratic power--the Peacock Throne and the phantom jet--both the Shah and the United States lost sight of any Iran beyond the central court and the romantic exotica of ancient Persia...
...Conrad fled to the sea at 16 and tried to cut himself off from what had been. He took on new languages (French, then English) the way others don disguises. He made himself an outcast well before the age of alienation. But the decision in his mid-30s to settle in England and become a writer meant an end to running. Countless thousands of miles had carried him smack into the past...