Word: flee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like the mambo. Nor is it a folk band, like a mariachi. Nor should it be confused with maracas, those hollow gourds filled with dry seeds that shake, rattle and roll south of the border. Most audiences could not pick it out of a percussion lineup, and concert managers flee at the very mention of its name. For Leigh Howard Stevens, to be the world's greatest classical marimbist must sometimes seem a dubious achievement...
...opening of the country's 6,000 polling stations, a mob of 50 goons descended on a line of about 100 waiting voters. Using machetes and machine guns, they cut down several Haitians on the spot, then hunted down and butchered many who had tried to flee. One woman was decapitated under an almond tree in the schoolyard. Another was dismembered in an adjacent alleyway. At least 17 people, possibly more, died in the attack. Said Photographer Diederich after surveying the scene: "There was no discrimination about whom they killed...
...polarized city of 7.3 million where the megarich in stretch limousines look away from the 1.8 million living in poverty, more than 50,000 of them homeless. The city that prides itself on being the cutting edge of the future watches as corporations, promising artists and middle-class families flee its staggering costs and the country's highest taxes, while developers stack ever taller luxury condominiums in already overcrowded neighborhoods...
...custody battle say they are looking forward to a trial to bring even more attention to the case in which both expect to be vindicated. LaLonde said he will seek full custody of Nicole with her mother allowed only supervised visitation until he can be sure she will not flee with the child again...
BOSTON--Stephen LaLonde in a televised interview yesterday broke his seven-month silence over highly publicized allegations that his sexual abuse of his daughter forced his former wife to flee Massachusetts with the girl...