Word: getaways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were going to Czechoslovakia for a short vacation." Because they were afraid to expose their plans even to friends and family, there was no one to bid them farewell at 9 that night, when they piled their children -- Christian, 5, Susann, 3, and Katrin, 9 months -- into their worn getaway car, a 1972 Fiat. They packed just a pair of knapsacks, then took off on what would be a five-day odyssey to the West...
...dealer-diplomats in LW2 are just your ordinary bad guys. They keep zillions of Krugerrands on hand to finance their chicanery. They have a getaway helicopter conveniently waiting in downtown Los Angeles at the end of a car chase that totals dozens of innocent drivers. Now if only this gang could shoot straight, they might rid the world of Detectives Riggs and Murtaugh (Danny Glover) -- and spare moviegoers further sequels to the loathable smash...
Wright spokesperson Mark Johnson said the Texas Democrat planned a weekend getaway with his wife Betty to an undisclosed location. One lawmaker close to the talks speculated that Wright would spend the time writing his final speech...
...Noid, Domino's says, but one of them took the advertising campaign personally. Last week Kenneth Noid, 22, walked into a Domino's Pizza shop in Chamblee, Ga., with a .357 Magnum revolver and took two employees hostage. When police arrived, he demanded $100,000 in cash, a getaway car and a copy of The Widow's Son, a 1985 novel about secret societies in an 18th century Parisian prison...
...however, am less intelligent, and less inclined towards Absolut measures, so I went for the grand getaway. Sixty cents and a change at the Green Line and there I was at North Station, poring through train schedules. It was just beginning to dawn on me that Commuter Rail doesn't cross any borders, when I heard a conductress shouting "North line...boarding Track Four!" Instinct got the better...