Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Financier Robert Vesco fled the U.S. to avoid his mounting legal problems, he took along a prized possession: a Boeing 707 jetliner lavishly fitted out with a dis cotheque, a sauna for five and sleeping quarters for twelve. Vesco may have thought his expensive toy was safe, but one of his more determined creditors reckoned otherwise. In what may turn out to be one of the most bizarre asset-recovery schemes on record, Alwyn Eisenhauer, Vesco's former pilot, settled a beef against his old boss simply by talking his way aboard the plane, then flying it home...
...junta has no intention of granting independence now. Even as small numbers of the thousands of young Portuguese who fled their country to escape the draft began trickling back last week, troops were boarding transports at Portela airport to be flown to combat areas in the territories...
...blend of obnoxious stereotypes. The first is the libidinous black woman who cannot stop having children despite her poverty. The second is the stern, loving matriarch urging the middle-class success ethic on her brood. Roop is merely single-line stereotype, the stud who has fled his obligations to one family and is now doing his best to love and leave Claudine...
...type pursuits." In February 1973, her six-year marriage to Black Pianist Gilbert Scott Perry broke up, and she began a drifting, seemingly aimless existence, working variously as a topless blackjack dealer in a North Beach nightclub and selling soft drinks from an outdoor stand. On Jan. 10 she fled a rented house in suburban Concord used by the S.L.A. as a headquarters, after trying to set fire to the contents, which included BB guns and maps which showed abandoned mines and ranger stations...
...Patty make the tape? The most pessimistic view was bluntly voiced by Vincent Hallinan, a 77-year-old San Francisco lawyer for the Hearsts, who said that he feared the kidnapers had forced the girl to deliver the statement, then killed her and fled, releasing the tape as a diversion. On the other hand, the girl could conceivably have spoken out because of fear, or to buy time, or to convince the terrorists that she had joined them so that she could later break free...