Word: fled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threw the grenade at Bwaku, the guard ducked, then heard a sharp explosion behind him. He fled around the side of the embassy, shouting into his walkie-talkie: "Base! Base! Terrorism! Terrorism!" But nobody heard him on the busy channel. Back at the gates, guard Joash Okindo managed to lock the heavy steel doors over the ramp to the embassy garage as the attacker hurled another grenade in his direction. Nanoseconds later, Bwaku heard the ferocious explosion of a bomb that knocked him off his feet but left him miraculously alive. Later, Bwaku's American boss at United International confirmed...
...guitars at Pearl River Junior College in Poplarville, Miss., playing acid rock in the clubs of New Orleans, moving to Nashville and working for Billboard, and failing in his first bid for folkie stardom (his debut album stiffed, and his second was put on the shelf). In 1971 he fled Tennessee and a bad first marriage and wound up at the end of the road in Key West, then a lazy outpost for shrimpers, smugglers, gays and cosmic cowboys like singer Jerry Jeff Walker and novelist Tom McGuane, who ended up married to Buffett's sister Laurie...
That may be true. But Slabbers have built a society somewhat like the one they fled, with good neighborhoods and bad, gentle souls and sociopaths, entrepreneurs and lazy Lebowskis. And Barnett's got a cell phone and color TV, for crying out loud...
...millions of well-educated Nigerians described in your article "who once formed an ambitious middle class and have fled the country in total frustration." But ethnic division, poverty and mass ignorance have made it virtually impossible for an honest, intelligent and well-meaning leadership to emerge. While I am saddened by the recent events in Nigeria, I share the belief of most Nigerians that this is the best opportunity we have ever had to shed some of the burdens that have held us back since independence. ONYEKWERE OGAN Los Angeles...
...legal commentators are underestimating the chances of her case on appeal, she is going to go down in history with her old nose. I am reminded of the young woman who had the misfortune to be with Nelson Rockefeller when he suffered a fatal heart attack. Wisely, she fled the press hounds, but the only picture of her that photo editors could find to run incessantly made her look rather lumpish. I could imagine her, safe in some unused summer house, fighting the temptation to return just long enough to get a more flattering picture into the record...