Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these difficulties, Wiser, 54, caught the industry by surprise with his abrupt decision to quit. His resignation was accepted last week at a directors' meeting in Denver that he did not even attend; the company cited unspecified "personal considerations" for his leaving. According to company insiders, the exit of Cooke, 57, who has been in poor health recently, was exacerbated by internal criticism of a controversial advertising campaign featuring Actor Peter Sellers...
...ruthlessly suppressed Communist rebels in the Philippines. Only a few years ago, he was being castigated in Peking as a reactionary lackey of American imperialism. For the Philippines, recognition of China was an inevitable coming to terms with one of Asia's dominant powers, following the final American exit from Indochina. China, for its part, skillfully turned the occasion into a showpiece for an assertive display of anti-Soviet diplomacy...
...always been integrated. In 1963, for example, when 18% of the students were black, there were few problems and there was need for only one daytime security guard. This year, by contrast, the school is spending nearly $160,000 for security, money that otherwise would go for education. The exit doors bristle with electronic locks. Eight plainclothes officers with two-way radios patrol the halls, while off-duty city police monitor the 55-acre campus. Next fall four special-police youth officers will be assigned to E.T.H.S. full time. Says Senior Michael Crooks: "I feel like...
...returned to Moscow. He secured a well-paid job as medical editor in the Ministry of Health. He bought a refrigerator. He bought a car. He mar ried. With the tireless help of a letter-writing sister, the wife of a United Nations official, he eventually acquired an exit visa. In December 1971, 23 years after his arrest, 38 years after he had last seen New York, he landed at Kennedy Airport...
...Meadow Park. Fenway's just the opposite--all narrow streets and factories and warehouses. But the kids were on the field. They eluded the cops for four, five minutes--it was beautiful just to watch--and the angry cops chased them over into the stands and up toward the exit signs. I think they got away...