Word: fled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Freetown on a borrowed satellite phone from under the cover of a palm tree as a muggy quiet settled over the city. His dispatches, and his courage, provided the outside world with its first glimpse of Sierra Leone's nightmare in more than a week, since the last journalists fled...
...body. His fellow agents had already discovered that the terrorist now had the cash to back up his threat. Yousef apparently had a benefactor, a wealthy Saudi expatriate named Osama bin Laden, who in the 1980s had bankrolled mujahedin guerrillas fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan and who had fled his Saudi homeland after he had been charged with inciting fundamentalist opposition to the country's royal family...
...apartment and entered as she sat in a wheelchair facing away from the door. She reported that he bent over her and said, "I have food for you," showing her a bag of canned goods. At the same time, he stole her wallet from her purse, and then fled. Her wallet was discovered empty in the stairwell...
...poverty even more dire emotionally than it was economically. His father Elias was one of those feckless figures who wandered the heartland at the turn of the century seeking success in many occupations but always finding sour failure. He spared his children affection, but never the rod. They all fled him at the earliest possible moment...
...Sanford, Maine, resident reports that her car was broadsided at the intersection of JFK and Mt. Auburn Streets. The offending car fled the scene...