Word: flees
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Prime Minister of Israel in 1977, the situation became even more complex, first with Israel's occupation of a "security strip" in southern Lebanon in March 1978, then with the all-out invasion last year. The Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon forced thousands of Lebanese Shi'ites to flee to the slums of Beirut. The dispossessed Shi'ites, along with the Palestinians and the increasingly radicalized Lebanese Muslims?all of them egged on by the Syrians?have made for an explosive mixture...
...thieves apparently ordered the five to walk 120 yds. down an oilfield service road and lie face down side by side. Then they pumped bullets into their victims' backs and heads, as in a gangland execution. One of the victims, Opie Ann Hughes, 39, may have tried to flee; her body, clad in a Kentucky Fried Chicken uniform, was some 50 yds. away from the others...
...Sinn Fein, appears as an occasional guest at the Quinton house, which the Black and Tans burn in 1918 after massacring Willie's father and sisters. The boy grows up to nurse an alcoholic mother, love an English cousin, avenge his father's murder and flee Ire-and. Characteristically, Trevor's women remain home to bear fevered witness and carry the seeds of further disaster...
...away. When I had last seen it in 1944, it was a place of excitement. It is now a gray, empty barracks, quite forbidding. Adjacent to it is the last station of the pilgrimage-Mao slept here for several weeks in his last days in Yanan, preparing to flee and reorganize his armies for the final assault on the Nationalists; he and the entire Central Committee were to be on the march for the next two years. Mao, says the guide, left Yanan on March 19, 1947, maneuvering to lure Chiang Kai-shek after him while he closed...
...despite warnings, to take practical steps to organize potential supporters. Less interested in acting decisively on history than in acting in it, he becomes the unnamed co-conspirator in his own destruction. Arrested and placed on show trial before a revolutionary tribunal, he refuses to fight or flee, since he is unable to resist a performer's apotheosis: a public defense of his life and opinions in a courtroom...