Word: flee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does think that Ray got help in fleeing is Warden Stonney Lane of Brushy Mountain prison, who told TIME that he thought the break had been assisted by some authority within the institution. Said he: "They would have had to be helped." Whoever organized the plot shrewdly waited until Lane was far away in Corpus Christi, Texas, taking his first vacation in five years. Lane said Ray was the first man over the wall. "What I want to know is: Why wasn't he shot at? They shot the last one." And Lane was convinced that Ray and the others...
...Attempt to flee an Army stockade in October 1948, after arrest for drunkenness in his barracks...
...destination other than the Bio labs. On the rare occasions that he went to a party, he would walk in, count the number of men there, divide it by the number of the women there, and compute the ratio. Then he'd smile at his host and flee. Beth was going through a premed stage at the time and she would often study with Greg. She owed her high grades that semester not to any scientific aptitude but to her desire not to appear stupid to him. By the end of the semester, she was no longer interested...
...wealthy mobsters live like millionaires, Internal Revenue Service agents can ask discomfiting questions. Some Mafiosi have large sums in secret bank accounts overseas, most notably in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, as nest eggs in case they ever have to flee abroad. Other mobsters keep their escape money in bank safe-deposit boxes or hiding places called "traps." Anthony ("Fat Tony") Salerno, a gambler and loan shark who was indicted last week on charges of running a $10 million-a-year numbers operation in Manhattan, used to keep more than $1 million in small bills packed in shoe boxes stacked from floor...
...Istanbul's Taksim Square, where 150,000 people had gathered to hear pro-Ecevit speeches by leaders of the leftist Revolutionary Confederation of Trade Unions. A group believed to be far-left Maoists began firing at the crowd; 34 of the 36 who died while trying to flee were trampled to death or clubbed by union security guards...