Word: egress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fire ropes were checked periodically but were not used in the monthly fire drills each dormitory is required to have. Instead, according to Mr. Gates, they were only to be used "as a last resort, the third means of egress after the front and back stairways." Neither the new fire ladders nor the sprinklers will be used in routine drills either...
...watch the rest on television. She later admitted that she felt concerned only when first reports showed that radar contact had been lost with the space capsule after reentry. Beyond that, she had no worries: "I've been thoroughly checked out, and I've watched the egress [escape from the capsule] many times...
...have seemed not wholly unlike an Atlantic crosssing in late August, when one embarks at Naples with the sun high overhead and flooding the streets, only to land in Boston where the autumn already is casting long shadows. I left the hotel through an exit marked "Not an accredited egress door," and descended into dingy Arlington station...
What happened next added a new element of mystery to the recovery operation. "When we were about ten to 20 feet away from the capsule," reported Pilot James Lewis, "we observed the hatch being blown. We saw the astronaut egress from the space capsule and go into the water immediately after the hatch was blown...