Word: egress
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...can’t put locks on many of our bedroom doors because many times locking a door prevents access to either a bathroom or a mode of egress,” he says...
Cookies were cast awry as the assassin gave chase. His quarry faked left and right, but could find no escape. Spotting a cookie and brownie-laden isle, the prey doubled back and around the fixture, searching frantically for a point of egress. The predator raced along an array of juices and milks, his menacing gait punctuated by the spoon he held clutched in his right hand. Ten feet, six feet, three feet lay between the pursued and a gruesome death by spoon...
...every year the ceiling keeps inching higher and higher out of reach. With over 30,000 students applying to Harvard, college admissions can feel more like a labyrinth than a marathon—one in which the odds are overwhelmingly against your finding the egress. This year, out of every 14 students who applied to Harvard, just 1 was admitted. An article in The Washington Post recently asked if this meant that 1 in every 50 seniors in the country applied to Harvard...
...road going forward is like an eight-lane highway with no access and egress signs, no directions, no lane markings, no speed limits, no police and no one knowing if they should drive on the left side or the right side of the road. You make your own rules and do your best to get to your destination. In the world of globality, you can't wait for someone else to set the rules...
...ships passing into the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz. There were no shots fired or damage caused, but no doubt this was an Iranian reminder to the United States that the Gulf is called the Persian Gulf for a reason. And the Iranians chose Hormuz, the only real egress for Gulf oil, to remind us that they have their hand on the world's oil spigot...