Word: fled
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...Carmel, the former Branch Davidian compound. Startled by gunshots early on the Sunday morning in February when agents of the ATF raided the compound, the couple and their daughter Amanda, now 6, waited out the fighting crouched in back rooms. Later, with only the clothes on their backs, they fled across a pasture to safety and took refuge for 70 days with friends and then in an apartment in town. When they returned -- after the fire in April that killed more than 70 Davidians -- they found bullets in their home and the place overrun by FBI agents, who had used...
...unidentified man attacked U.S. figure skater Nancy Kerrigan -- a contender for an Olympic gold medal -- as she practiced for the U.S. championships in Detroit. The assailant struck Kerrigan in the knee with a club and fled. The attack was reminiscent of the stabbing of tennis star Monica Seles in Germany last year. Kerrigan has withdrawn from the nationals but may yet compete in the Olympic Games next month, if the U.S. Figure Skating Association decides to offer her a place on the team...
...battle that was supposed to be easily won by the allies but had turned into a rout. But later stories emerged from the German side of the same incident. The Kaiser's soldiers said they found themselves "absolutely powerless to proceed . . . and their horses turned around sharply and fled." The Germans said the allied position was held by thousands of troops -- though in fact there were only two regiments there...
Aziz's mother Halima, 50, told how the family fled their home in the village of Simsim, just northeast of the Gaza Strip in Israel, when she was a little girl during the 1948 war. "Since 1948 we have never been happy," she said. "We have no land, no security, no hope, no future." When the Aziz family set up a small T shirt-printing shop in 1989, the Israeli occupation authorities imposed taxes she says they could not afford to pay. In 1991 Anwar was arrested as a suspected Islamic Jihad supporter, and spent two years in prison...
...been killed by police and his children's teacher had been murdered by PEPES, a vigilante group thought to comprise former colleagues whom the drug lord had betrayed, but also to include hit men from the rival Cali drug cartel. Fearing they would be next, his wife and children fled early last week to Germany, seeking asylum; they were promptly deported back to Bogota...