Word: fled
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...schoolchildren. It began when Lori Dann, 30, shot and wounded an eight-year- old boy in the bathroom of the Hubbard Woods Elementary School. Dropping one pistol, she entered a second-grade classroom, where she opened fire with another revolver, killing one youngster and critically wounding four others. Dann fled to a nearby household, where she shot one occupant and barricaded herself in the building alone. When a police SWAT team finally burst in about seven hours later, Dann was found dead. She had shot herself through the head with her third gun, a .32-cal. revolver...
...helm, many other influential Republicans are afraid to stand up for civil rights. Republican Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole has a civil rights record so solid that it won praise from Coretta Scott King. But when Reagan and the Moral Majority lobbied against the Civil Rights Restoration Act, Dole fled to Wisconsin in a futile attempt to attract voters and dodge the issue...
Harvard University has given the country five Presidents, and Michael Dukakis might make six. After his humiliating 1978 defeat for a second term as Governor, Dukakis fled to the sanctuary offered by Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, the university's newest professional school. When he regained the governorship four years later, he proclaimed that his second term would be a "test of what I have learned and what we try to teach at the school...
...vision has gradually given way to a darker, more sinister image. According to accounts provided by former Colonia Dignidad residents, the colony, which now numbers about 350, has become a virtual prison camp under the control of its founder and leader, Paul Schafer, 66. A self-proclaimed psychologist, Schafer fled Germany in 1961 with his small flock after police launched an investigation into charges that he had sexually abused two boys...
Bleaker still because Sarah has been socialized so thoroughly into her role as a housewife that she can never break free of it. She retains her meticulous materialism. After having fled from society, sitting alone on a island, Sarah sends a final letter--to her husband...