Word: fled
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...Dalai Lama, 54, was born Tenzin Gyatso. The son of a poor farmer, he was named spiritual and temporal ruler as the 14th Dalai Lama at age five, just before the Chinese army marched into Tibet. He fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule...
Well, no. All three were products of a deceptively sophisticated professional who grew up with the country, reflecting America's experiences in his music. When the Baline family fled the Russian pogroms in 1892 for the tenements of New York, young Israel was four. The Statue of Liberty was only a couple of years older. His father Moses, a cantor, died when the boy was eight, so he hit the streets in search of work. Izzy sang for pennies anywhere he could find listeners, finally landing a job as a singing waiter in a raffish Chinatown bistro; it was there...
Most of all, I wanted to avoid my own sense of helplessness and frustration. But I had a responsibility to carry out, so I did my duty, and after dinner I fled, paroled until next week...
...economies of American cities, especially in the industrial areas to which many blacks had migrated from the South. Places like Cleveland and Detroit suffered a dwindling of the well-paid manufacturing jobs that had pulled generations of unskilled workers into the middle class. Many whites, fearing black government, fled to the suburbs, taking their taxable incomes with them. The financial bind worsened under the Reagan Administration's cutbacks in urban aid. "It's like getting the prize and seeing that the prize is hollow," says Linda Williams, policy analyst at the Joint Center for Political Studies in Washington...
Meanwhile, the storm advanced faster and with renewed fury yesterday on Georgia and South Carolina as a flood of coastal residents grabbed what they could carry and fled inland on jammed highways...