Word: fled
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...decade, Israeli warplanes and artillery rained fire on southern Lebanese villages in retaliation for rocket attacks by the pro-Iranian guerrillas of Hizballah. Israel agreed to a U.S.-brokered truce in the weeklong offensive only after Hizballah pledged to stop guerrilla raids. More than half a million refugees have fled the U.N.-controlled southern security zone in recent weeks. The U.S. rebuked all parties, including Israel and Syria, for slowing the peace process...
...Imamajovic stands in the shrapnel-scarred doorway of the Bjelave orphanage, watching the chaos around him. More than 60 children, abandoned by their parents, fight, scream and run through the empty corridors of the three- story school. Though he is not on the faculty -- most of the instructors have fled -- Imamajovic says he is their mentor. "I teach them to steal and not to share," he says. "I teach them to survive. The city may die, but some of them will live...
...Connecticut two years ago, a teenager named Gina Pellegrino fled a New Haven hospital, where she had registered under a phony name, hours after giving birth to a girl. A search was made for the infant's biological parents, and Pellegrino's parental rights were terminated a few weeks afterward; the abandoned baby was placed for adoption. A few months later, Pellegrino reappeared and sued to regain custody, which would mean taking the baby out of a secure home and sending her to live with her mother in a homeless shelter. Late last year the state supreme court granted Pellegrino...
...District of Columbia. Less than four hours before the drawing, Leslie C. Robins, a 30-year-old English teacher, bought the winning ticket for his fiance at a grocery store in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. After learning that they had beaten odds of 55 million to 1, the couple fled to Florida to escape the media...
...feel that way. Spotted by police as soon as the Coast Guard cutter tied up, he was ordered to a separate area on the docks. There, he says, he was pistol-whipped in the head and jabbed with an electric cattle prod. "The police kept yelling that we had fled to show support for Aristide," Esterlin recalls, "and that we should all be killed." Terrified, he broke and ran. Police were unable to catch up, so they went instead to Esterlin's mother's home in Petit-Trou. Still unable to find him, they fired several rounds into the house...