Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state senator shoved his way out of the hall after a ten-minute appearance, shouts of "no way" and "you didn't lose" died away. Instead, well-wishers patted the candidate on the back, saluted his exit with a chorus of "we want Joe," and in some cases cried as the less loyal pushed their way out of the banquet room...
...drama is composed in free verse with a tendency to impose unnatural breaks in the dialogue. Particularly in "Fire Exit," set in a burlesque house, the language sounds stilted, as though the characters were parodying the contrived and choreographed world of their jobs. She deliberately scatters cliches through the speech of inarticulate dancers and comics--phrases they'd be likely to resort to in reality, but, as the author, Lang is not able to dissociate herself from their triteness...
...ended. After an occupation of 347 years, the British gave India back to the Indians. Like every detail of that massive transition, the moment chosen for India's deliverance was an awkward compromise. Lord Louis Mountbatten, the English viceroy, had intended to make his country's exit on Aug. 15, the second anniversary of Japan's surrender in the Pacific. Legions of India's astrologers howled; every stellar influence on that date spelled catastrophe. The ceremony was advanced twelve hours. The stars were not fooled...
...under postwar debts and shortages. Coal was scarce, and a bottle of liquor cost $35. For reasons as much financial as idealistic, the Labor government of Clement Attlee was determined to drop the white man's burden. But there was a hitch: the bloodbath following England's exit threatened to be worse than the one that would occur if she stayed...
...full four hours before Ford finally got into an elevator to descend to the lobby. He had been willingly detained by a local television interview, which he thought had gone nicely. The increasingly restless crowd outside had no way of knowing when he would emerge from the Post Street exit. But at 3:29 p.m. Ford strode briskly down the 14 final steps and out onto the sidewalk...