Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weep. "Excuse me," he said, sipping water from a cup. "Would you like a little recess?" gently asked Federal Judge John J. Sirica. Ehrlichman tried to continue, but Sirica raised both hands to stop him and ordered a 15-minute break. Confused, Ehrlichman walked toward the judge's exit until directed by Prates to a side door. Ehrlichman's wife Jeanne sat stoically in a second-row seat, her eyes not meeting her husband's. None of their five children were present...
...largely bespectacled throngs of long-haired teenagers dressed in the neuter hues of khaki and denim, waltz in the aisles passing fruit and sunflower seeds. Joni's arrival turns the camp town meeting into a sing-along chautauqua. After the concert, the fans mass around the main stage exit to wait for Joni, and when she appears they voice timid hellos, give her bouquets or simply smile...
...blustery winter evenings only a week before Christmas, year in and year out, six old men sit sipping coffee around a picnic table inside a gas station located off the Bellefonte State College exit off Interstate-80. There, to their backs, stand a full barrage of vending machines along with racks of groceries. In front of them, through the breath-fogged, plate glass windows, another carload of home-bound college kids unloads, and the men stop talking, bracing themselves for the next invasion of brash, Harvard-educated Southerners, Westerners or Midwesterners...
...CAMPGROUND is extremely quiet Sunday morning. At 10:00 we pack to leave and park our car down the exit road. On our way out I hear a man exclaiming: "I think just seeing what's going on here is fun." By the time the race starts it is 3:30 and we are again standing at turn 6. The race is 59 laps long. On the 10th lap there is a spinout down the straightaway. The next day I will learn the driver, Helmuth Koinigg, died crashing under the guardrail. He was decapitated. Standing next...
...bomb blast transformed the nearby Tavern in the Town into an even grislier scene. The shock waves of the explosion rebounded between the walls of the underground pub, turning flying debris into deadly missiles. Water poured onto the floor and the ceiling fell, as frantic survivors stumbled toward the exit over the bodies of the dead and maimed. Susan Edkin, 18, and her fiance were celebrating their engagement. "People were shouting and screaming," she said later. "I remember there was a man lying on the floor who couldn't see because his eyes had gone...