Word: fled
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Leaving behind Evans' 19-month-old son Jordan, who police believe is Ward's biological son, the threesome fled with the newborn and his brother Joshua, 8. Police later learned that Joshua reached out for help, telling an adult about the murders and charging that Ward had been involved. His captors then allegedly tried poisoning and strangling Joshua before stabbing him to death. Police found his body in an alley in the suburb of Maywood...
...G.I.A. and other armed groups hard since last spring, and the guerrillas have reportedly lost control of three outlying regions. In Algiers G.I.A. members still extort protection money in the "triangle of death," as the slums to the east of the city are known, but thousands of Algerians have fled areas of conflict. The young assassins who stalk victims with knives and pistols in the capital's center are fewer in number. "Some were arrested," explains a major in the paramilitary gendarmerie. "Some were shot dead, some gave up and some are in hiding in the mountains. We think...
...collection's stunning opener, The Wood-Sprite is a tale in whose mere three pages Nabokov concentrates the essence of heartache and playfulness that distinguishes the best of his work. A Russian writer who has fled the terrors of his revolutionary homeland imagines a visit from a forest elf ("hunched, gray, powdered with pollen") who explains why he too had to leave the new Soviet state: "Once, toward evening, I skipped out into a glade, and what do I see? People lying around, some on their backs, some on their bellies. Well, I think, I'll wake them...
...publisher; in Athens. Vlachou earned a journalistic reputation with a witty political column in her father's daily Kathimerini before assuming control of the paper in 1951. She shut the paper down in the late '60s in protest against the military dictators ruling Greece. Escaping house arrest, she fled to London and campaigned against the junta...
Nicholas Leeson, the man accused of singlehandedly destroying one of Britain's oldest investment banking firms, has decided to drop his efforts to avoid returning to Singapore for prosecution. Leeson, 28, fled Singapore for Germany last February when news of his futures trading fiasco was revealed. According to Singaporean investigators, Leeson, who was the general manager of futures trading for Britain's Barings bank in Singapore, wiped out some $1.38 billion of the bank's funds in Asian futures markets. The loss was more than the 232-year-old investment institution could cover. Leeson was charged with eleven counts...