Word: flees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gray, 33, an unemployed farmhand and next-door neighbor of the Holdens. Earlier he had picked an argument with Holden, possibly over the latter's mistreatment of his dog and rabbits. Gray then killed Holden and his elder daughter, 11, and torched the house. As terrified villagers tried to flee, Gray fired at them with five high-powered rifles kept in his kitchen, then began to stalk neighbors' homes. Among those killed was the first policeman to arrive at the scene...
...including those who were honest, voting, law-abiding, tax-paying citizens. Kahane justified his plan by citing the Biblical precedent of kicking the Canaanites out of the Holy Land. Kahane also argued that expelling Arabs from Israel would represent just vengeance for the Jews who had were forced to flee Moslem countries when Israel was founded...
...other students who were with Mansavage cooperated with the officers and surrendered their bursar's cards, but Mansavage attempted to flee after giving officers a false name and address...
...effect of economic sanctions, emigrant flight and international isolation is not "strangling" the country; rather, those actions are demoralizing and destabilizing Iraq, and rendering the place increasingly dysfunctional. In the hotel elevator, a prosperous businessman, fortyish and due to report for army duty in the morning, vows he will flee. "I have a brother-in-law in Chicago," he confides...
Such generalities of the Iraqi atrocities, however, do not take into account the horror stories that the New York Times fails to publish, such as the one of the Egyptian who tried to flee Kuwait with his wife and children...