Word: flee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police surveillance team on a chase through the city, driving past the homes of Mayor Maynard Jackson, Nathaniel Cater's father and finally Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown, where he paused to honk his horn and shout. In addition, the possibility that Williams might attempt to flee was raised by reports that his father had requested information about a charter pilot at a local airport...
...Ziaur Rahman, 45, was gunned down by an assault force of mutinous troops. Major General Abul Manzur, 40, who led the putsch against his longtime rival, had hoped for help from the military across the country. Instead, army units stormed the rebellious military garrison in Chittagong. While trying to flee to Burma, Manzur was captured and summarily shot by "angry soldiers," as Dacca radio explained. Government troops discovered Zia's body in a shallow grave 22 miles from the official guesthouse where he had been assassinated. During a state funeral in Dacca last Tuesday, a million Bangladeshi jostled...
...Shostakoviches flee...
Years later, in the record New Orleans Function, Armstrong recalled the traditional funeral by using Flee as a Bird as the processional dirge, Didn't He Ramble as a sample of swinging postburial music and an affectionate spoof of graveside eulogy. Says the Rev. Satchmo: "Ashes to ashes/ Dust to dust/ It's too bad old Gate/ Couldn't have stayed on earth with us." Armstrong never referred to a jazz funeral. Those who have nurtured the tradition speak simply of a funeral "with a band of music." Given New Orleans' love for parades, the outcome...
...cover blown. Wulfgar must flee to Paris, where he undergoes plastic surgery. ("I want to be beautiful," he growls). He emerges blond and Aryan, the very stereotypic image of the international terrorist. He and his "ruthless" sidekick Shakka--Persis Khambatta, with more hair and less of a role than when last seen in Star Trck--go to New York. Wulfgar is determined to redeem himself in the eyes of the International Underworld by committing spectacular and death-defving acts of terrorism, with full media coverage. While Wulfgar blows up Wall St., Fox and DaSilva are indoctrinated in "Counterterrorist techniques...