Word: fled
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...bounds of reason or ideology. These people, after all, are less like traditional refugees than they are like the Americans who went to Canada during the Vietnam War. They are fleeing the draft -- of their wallets, not their bodies. It's a smaller imposition, some might think. Those who fled in the 1960s were motivated, at best, by principled opposition to a government policy and, at worst, by a desire to save their own lives. The "new refugees" merely want to save money. And these financial draft evaders are not even barred completely from our shores. Under the rules, they...
...fled the scene and was not pursued. He was taken by ambulance to Cambridge Hospital, according to Harvard Police Lt. Lawrence J. Murphy, and transferred to Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary. He received seven stitches and treatment for a blood clot in his right...
...fled the farm in her teens; her savage rivalry with her mother was exhausting both of them. The elder woman resented the daughter's opportunities; the younger saw in her mother a stoicism she could never match. As a gutsy, pretty newcomer in the city of Salisbury, she fell in with young leftists and joined the Communists. These chapters make a scathing account of party delusions. "We despised anybody who did not believe in the Revolution," she writes, even doubting that she would demur if asked to go out and kill...
...Inauguration, his supporters returned to the White House and proceeded to get liquored up. In an orgy of populist celebration, they smashed the china and crystal. Men in muddy boots stood on damask-covered chairs. The overdressed swells at the party were so alarmed by the rabble that they fled through the windows of the People's House, along with the new President himself...
...would be ironic, though, if these new refugees fled the country at just the time when America would once again embrace the economic freedom that has become so popular around the world...