Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dance on his casket if he were to lose his fight with phlebitis. Yet that contingency was troubling an otherwise judicious commentator last week. William Raspberry, in his Washington Post column, speculated about whether Nixon should receive a state funeral or a modest ceremony commensurate with his inglorious exit from office. A state affair, Raspberry warned, might result in "the inflaming of anti-Nixon passions and renewed political strife." Raspberry worried whether "someone will be sufficiently hateful and tasteless to do something that would shatter whatever dignity a state funeral would confer." Picketing the bier? Stoning the hearse...
...Emperor freely admits that opposition to the monarchy is not tolerated in Iran, and he has methodically repressed dissent. His principal instrument for maintaining internal security, as he sees it, is SAVAK, Iran's feared secret police organization which routinely scrutinizes even job applications and requests for exit visas. Its name is an acronym from the Farsi words Sazeman Ettelaat va Amniat Keshvar (Security and Information Organization). The Shah himself insists that SAVAK is not large, and some Western observers in Tehran wonder whether it is as efficient as Iranians believe. Nevertheless, the secret police, through a large network...
...pressure to alter the domestic policy of another superpower. His amendment, to be incorporated in the bill that will probably clear Congress this year, was accepted on the basis of assurances from the Soviets that emigration would be stepped up and not impeded. Punitive measures against those applying for exit visas are to be halted...
...That August, Mills and his wife Polly moved into an apartment in Fanne's luxury building, the Crystal Towers in Arlington, Va. According to club employees, Mills, usually with Fanne, visited the Silver Slipper about twice a month, where they sat at a small table near an emergency fire exit. Sometimes he ordered magnums of champagne for Fanne and drinks for the house, rarely less than $100 worth in a single evening and on one memorable occasion, it is said, $ 1,700 worth?paid for in cash...
...analytical abilities leave something to be desired. His conclusion that the excesses of the free enterprise system could be avoided if each American did his or her duty as a citizen is, to say the least, simplistic. And it should be noted that his "liberated" woman makes her exit on the arm of a paternalistic and protective male, who says he loves her for her mind but neglects to mention that he controls...