Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spotted by an airplane and a helicopter hovering overhead, they were soon ticketed by other patrol cars lurking on access roads. Normally, a dozen accidents take place on a big weekend, but only one occurred during the experiment: a drunk mistook a drainage ditch for an exit ramp...
...exasperated chapter on the Catholic Church and its dominion over the republic, he cites Tocqueville's brilliant insight of more than 100 years ago: priest and peasant stood together against the common Protestant landowning enemy. Nothing that has happened since, including England's 1922 exit from the 26 Southern coun ties, has threatened that historic union...
IHEAR AN ACID laugh in the back seat. Someone is following us, Sheree thinks they're going to swing to our side. When we speed up, the heater spews hotter air. We take the nearest exit, so they'll think we have a destination...
...Moscow, Victoria's request for a three-month exit permit to visit Tate met with stony silence from the Soviet visa office and disapproval from the secret police. Hoping that publicity would jog the authorities, Victoria turned to the Western press. She told reporters that she fears her career is in jeopardy. Although she was the cover girl of Soviet Screen last March, her picture has been removed from the official Soviet film-export office in Moscow, and her bosses have grown markedly cool...
That spectacular exit dictated forever the critical terms on which Mishima and his works would be discussed. Perhaps he intended it that way. No writer who devoted as much creative energy to his life as to his novels could have found a valedictory image more arresting than a photograph, distributed round the world, of his own severed head...