Word: flee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been keeping a tense vigil since 1 a.m., waiting for Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. A day earlier, Duvalier had sent an urgent message to the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince, the capital. It implored the Americans to help him and his family flee the country that, after 28 years, was no longer under their control. Now Duvalier was two hours late. The Americans at the airport wondered if he had changed his mind or if the furtive escape plan had been foiled by the mounting opposition to his regime. Early-rising Haitians...
...After Loeb called him an "incompetent liberal masquerading as a conservative," Bush says he formed a task force to win Loeb over. Subsequently, Bush noted, came other Loeb broadsides: "Involved up to his neck in Watergate . . . candidate of the Trilateralists and Rockefeller barons." When Loeb wrote that "Republicans should flee the candidacy of George Bush as if it were the Black Plague," Bush said he gathered his task force and finally faced up to the awful truth: "We're going to have to put Bill Loeb down as doubtful...
Even the 4100 Lynah faithful, who had played up to 75 dollars to see the biggest annual event on the Ithaca calendar, started to flee after the Crimson's second-period fireworks...
...quarantine the entire West Coast and wait for the inhabitants to come out of the latency phase and die? And in the meantime, before we are able to impose some sort of final solution on the problem, will panicky parents keep their kids out of school? Will they flee urban areas...
...aftermath reports had a wonderful quality about them. They all more or less said whew! To be sure, Gloria's pummeling, up-the-coastline meander left a wake of damage and sorrow. Seven deaths could be traced to the storm. At least half a million people were forced to flee exposed homes for inland sanctuaries or public shelters in schools and armories. There were widespread power failures that left more than 2.75 million customers without electricity, some for several days. Long Island, N.Y., smack in the path of Gloria's worst, for the most part suffered little but toppled poles...