Word: exit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school at Fort Bragg, N.C., last week, a trainee leaped from a 35-ft. tower and was jerked up like a marionette by the wire attached to his shoulder harness. When he reached the ground, the trainee's lips were flecked with blood. The instructor ignored it. "Your exit was too quick and you didn't keep your elbows in," he snapped. "Jump again." Near by a captain walking behind a row of trainees suddenly barked: "Hit it!" The men bowed seemingly in unison and shouted: "Airborne!" But four who had been slow to react by a flicker...
...exit, Marilyn called in Kenneth...
Then, knowing a good exit line as well as anyone, De Gaulle took his special presidential train to test his personal strength in the farm country of south central France...
...dirt road, the scriptwriter (Irwin Shaw) runs out of gas, the actors (Stephen Boyd, Juliette Greco, David Wayne) have no spark, the director (Richard Fleisher) falls asleep at the wheel, and the producer (Darryl Zanuck) is going downhill. The spectator can hardly be blamed for speeding to the nearest exit...
...ever reads it." Out in the potato country, Central Committee Functionary Bruno Wagner was told flatly by a farmer: "One ought to listen more to the West." Refugees arriving in West Berlin said that lesser party hacks were unwittingly contributing to the exodus by boasting ominously that all exit routes to the West would soon be sealed off. Among the 150,000 refugees so far this year were over 500 doctors, whom East Germany can hardly afford to lose, more than 1,000 teachers, and last, week an East German supreme court judge, and the medical chief of the People...