Word: fled
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...locked. "I thought I was gone, until a man broke the lock off," says Letha Terry, one of the survivors. Twenty-five of Terry's fellow employees were not so lucky. Their bodies were found clustered around the blocked doorways or trapped in the freezer, where the workers had fled in vain from the fire's heat and smoke...
Asante was one of the lucky ones. Five riders were killed and nearly 200 injured. Motorman Robert Ray, 38, who fled the scene, was later captured and charged with five counts of manslaughter. Blood tests showed two times the legal limit of alcohol in his system...
Last week Bonn strengthened its demand for the return of former East German leader Erich Honecker, who fled to the Soviet Union in March to escape manslaughter charges arising from his shoot-to-kill orders to prevent East Germans escaping to the West. But generally there is little clamor for vengeance. Except for Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu, who underwent a televised trial and execution, relatively few former communist leaders have been prosecuted, and none executed...
...Hall and 11 other communists were indicted under the Smith Act on charges of advocating the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. He jumped bail and fled to Mexico, was captured in a border motel, and spent several years in a maximum security cell at Leavenworth, right beside Machine Gun Kelly. Such exploits built a mythic aura around Hall, who, two years after his release in 1957, became general secretary of a party in turmoil. Gone were the halcyon days of 1932 when a communist candidate for President garnered 102,000 votes. Between McCarthy's witch-hunts and Nikita Khrushchev...
...anymore," said Vladimir Gubarev, an editor at Pravda, which, like all other party newspapers, was suspended on Aug. 23 and failed to appear for the first time since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. "There is no one in the Central Committee Secretariat. No one in the Politburo. They all fled like mice...