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Word: exit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Lenin really did hold Martov in deep affection, Martov never went underground, and spoke at a meeting of the Moscow Soviet a month after his supposed escape. He asked for an exit visa and left legally via Estonia. Izvestia's version proved the aptness of a Russian proverb Khrushchev has known since childhood: "Better a clever lie than the dull truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: Lovable Lenin | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

Then there is Miss St. John's delightful penchant for synopsizing local attitudes. She hardly realizes what snobs her heroes are. Heroine Brooks for example, is involved in the following episode: "As she made her way to the exit she was jostled and pushed by two boys behind her. She gathered from their conversation that they were in a hurry to get to Math 306, Vector Analysis. Their voices were course and vulgar. She shuddered to herself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe's New Catalogue | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...Free China Relief Association called the action "tantamount to sentencing the youths to death.'' Over the Fence. It was not simply a case of bureaucratic heartlessness. Since the Communists seized China in 1949. Hong Kong has absorbed a million refugees. Because Red China cynically gives exit visas to the aged and infirm who are of no use at home, an average of 1,500 a month come over the border legally. An estimated 16,000 more per month arrive illegally, either packed in the holds of fishing junks or by climbing the eight-foot fence that runs along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong: Refugee Dilemma | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...more imaginative friend describes it, "Some famous wit--was it Dr. Johnson?--said of a sentence of hanging that 'it concentrates the mind wonderfully'. So also jumping--in particular that delirious moment of exit--concentrates consciousness in a blindingly bright, diamond hard point. Mind has triumphed; this is the moment of pure reason...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARACHUTE JUMPING | 4/21/1962 | See Source »

...through to you pretty . It can force you in on your---as never before, and it can take away from yourself--for four sec---as never before. It isn't all , nor is it all thrill. Nor does adventure last for only the few of descent from exit to land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARACHUTE JUMPING | 4/21/1962 | See Source »

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