Then, he said, with $3.26 in his pocket, he fended for himself.
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It's unclear how Natalia fended for herself in the years she was alone.
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Surrounded by barbed wire, more than 1,300 migrants fended for themselves inside the dilapidated facility.
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The researchers believe that the babies fended for themselves and were separated from the adults.
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These are oysters that have fended for themselves for years amidst the crushing ice of Wallace Bay.
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She defected from Czechoslovakia, at 18, and fended for herself on tour for six years without a country.
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It was a town where people got around on horseback and fended for themselves, and where the drug trade was becoming more central to the economy.
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Sounding too literary to be true, modest citizens of the city fended for themselves in tight knit community groups, and the best life could be found on the top floors, with access to the rooftops and fresh air.
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It threw 100 delinquent teens out of a dying space station back down to Earth — now a nuclear wasteland — where they fended for themselves against the elements and the "Grounders," those who managed to survive the nuclear apocalypse three generations ago and who weren't too thrilled about anyone trying to take their land.
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Paraguay fended for itself with an armed militia. This also limited the governor's influence, as it was the members of the cabildo who rallied the militia.
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Victor is estimated to have been born around 1788. According to Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard, Victor was a normal child at birth but was neglected by his alcoholic parents from an early age. Subsequently, he then left civilization and fended for himself in the wild. Victor was prepubescent when he was captured in 1800, but experienced puberty within a year or two.
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The speed and ferocity of the flames, aided by abundant fuels and a landscape immersed in smoke, made fire suppression and containment impossible. In many cases, residents fended for themselves as fires broke communications, cut off escape routes and severed electricity and water supplies. Up to 8,000 people were evacuated in Victoria at the height of the crisis and a state of disaster was declared for the first time in South Australia's history. More than 35 townhouses were burned in a small town in Victoria.
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Kaye is an accomplished competitive athlete, having been the Auckland Women's 3,000 m running champion in 1997, and has raced in numerous marathons and multi-sport events. In 2008 Kaye competed in the Coast to Coast multi-sport event. In February 2013, Kaye completed the Coast to Coast race a second time, becoming the first New Zealand Cabinet Minister to do so. In 1997, Kaye participated in a television documentary called Fish out of Water, in which she and five other teenagers were marooned on Rakitu Island (off Great Barrier Island) and fended for themselves for eight days.
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Gooch was born in Ripley, Tennessee, the son of rural Tennessee sharecroppers and the grandson of emancipated slaves, Gooch was orphaned at age four and fended for himself growing up in the 1920s and 1930s under the shadow of Jim Crow. Working in fields while watching airplanes fly overhead, he dreamed of escaping to a better life. While in high school, in 1943, during World War II, Gooch joined the Army, and was eventually shipped to the Philippines as a sergeant supervising a construction operation; he was discharged after the war in 1946. He graduated from his hometown's Lauderdale High School while in the military.
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