Word: fled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group fled to safety in several Wigglesworth entryways, Nettune said...
This public humiliation of officers on duty was a breaking point. Many policemen simply took off their uniforms and stayed at home. The much feared police chief of the capital district, Lieut. Colonel Michel Francois, fled across the border to the Dominican Republic, turning the former Big Three of dictators into a diminished...
...next metamorphosis is already beginning. Haitians and Americans are rushing preparations for Aristide's arrival. Volunteers are working to repair the President's white, two-story residence, which police had stripped and looted even of window frames after he fled the country. In the capital, the presidential palace is also in bad shape, but no restoration work can be scheduled until the de facto president, Emile Jonassaint, is pushed out -- possibly this week. Haitians say he is booby-trapping the palace with voodoo charms to thwart Aristide...
...afternoon wound down, Keanu fled to the Porsche. The sweet pixie dust fragrance of stardom gave way to the smell of freshly-cut grass, the graduates sighed and the twinkle was extinguished from their eyes...
...making progress toward some higher plane. This year, the world gasped as genocide in its purest form raged through the country. First, the Hutu-dominated government unleashed a frenzy of killing against the minority Tutsis. Then, when the Tutsis launched a rebellion and seized the country, thousands of Hutus fled in fear to border camps. There, thousands more died from cholera and dysentery. By the time the worst had ended, as many as half a million people had died...