Word: fled
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Born in Newport News, Virginia, Ella Fitzgerald never knew her biological father. According to a biographer, she was raised in Yonkers, New York, and fled her abusive stepfather after her mother died, making money by singing and dancing on the sidewalks of Harlem and warning prostitutes of the arrival of the police. At 16, dressed in cast-off clothes and wearing men's boots, she won an amateur-night contest at the Apollo Theater. When she was brought to Chick Webb's attention, he complained, "I don't want that old ugly thing!" But he took her. As admirers would...
...born in Athens, Ohio in 1959, 10 years after her parents fled the reign of Mao Zedong in China. She will be given a Doctorate of Arts...
...windshield and back window were shot out, the witnesses said. Police are searching for a gray Peugeot 505 that fled the scene, the Lagos state police command said...
...Delicate Balance opened on Broadway in 1966, four years after Virginia Woolf; it's a slimmer, more mysterious work. Tobias and Agnes are a middle-aged couple whose orderly suburban lives are shaken one evening by the arrival of their old friends Harry and Edna. The visitors have fled their home to escape some nameless fear. It soon appears that they plan to move...
...death, or when he savagely beat a Croat priest and five others with a police baton, a metal wrench and a car jack. From April 17 until Nov. 20, 1992, the witnesses say, Lugar terrorized thousands of non-Serb residents of Bosanski Samac in northern Bosnia until they either fled or died. He stopped only when Bosnian Serb authorities jailed him--unjustly, he huffs--for torturing 11 Serb allies and killing one in a quarrel over loot. Lugar, 34, claims he did not do anything wrong. "I was just a military policeman," he tells TIME, "carrying out normal duties...