Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walks later, the bases were loaded and Columbia's Charlie Manzione ignited the eight-run outburst with a looping two-run double. Doubles, singles, and walks came next, making it 6-0. Exit Clifford, enter Mark Linehan...
...when the next batter, Tom Songin, followed with a single, it was time for Clifford to exit in favor of Mark Linehan. "I just didn't have it in that last inning," Clifford said last night. "You can't really explain it, because I wasn't really tired, and I had had a few good innings, but Mark pitched really well...
...gentleman's agreement that both right and left factions had managed to honor since the war began, leftist gunners zeroed in on the presidential palace at Baabda, six miles above the city. As some 80 shells crumped into the palace, President Suleiman Franjieh, 65, made a hasty exit in an armored limousine...
...nowhere materialized uniformed policemen, plaid-jacketed plainclothesmen, and a searchlight the size of a cannon. The disc-jockey abandons his notorious sound system to steer the bright beam over the crowd. The silver-studded dancers break apart like mercury and slither sullenly towards the exit. There is a twenty minute wait for coats;the boy with the orange cape has donned less auspicious clothing and bustles about the cloakroom, calling out numbers, grabbing tickets, rolling his eyes...
This is taxicab territory; unlike other parts of Boston, there was no mass exit at 12:30. The people here had enough money to pay a five dollar cover charge (two drinks included,) fifty cents for a mandatory coat check, $1.75 for additional drinks and eighty-five cents for a pack of cigarettes--cab fares are no problem. Within minutes, everyone is packed in mud-splattered yellow vehicles and wending homewards...