Word: fled
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Apparently, having a genius for white-collar crime doesn't mean you're suited for life on the lam. Exactly four months to the day after he fled his Connecticut mansion, his financial empire crumbling, fugitive money manager and astrologist Martin Frankel was captured in Germany. "You got me," Frankel told German police and an FBI agent when they found him in his hotel room shortly before 9 a.m. local time. The amazing thing is that it took this long. For a meticulous man who had constructed what an investigator described as "one of the greatest scams successfully perpetrated...
...reference to the death of a man who parachuted from the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. The correct spelling of the jumper's name is Frank Gambalie III. Also, he did not die from the jump but apparently drowned after diving into a river as he fled from park rangers...
After my determination to experience something new and different, this ending to my saga may sound like rather a copout: adversity struck and like a whimpering coward I fled back to familiarity. Perhaps so. Perhaps I am nothing more than a thin-blooded weakling, unable to stand up to the challenge of strangeness. I prefer to think that I just really enjoy a good night's sleep...
...received a call from the Cambridge Trust Bank at 1720 Mass. Ave. that a white male in his late 40's entered the bank and showed the teller a note asking for money. The teller complied, though no weapon was shown. The suspect then fled the area towards Porter Square...
...student demanded that he pull over, and when Wodja stopped the car in a parking lot on Nonathum Road, the summer school student fled from the vehicle...