Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Probably, though, Dunlep's appointment is a reward for 21 years of service to Pusey and Harvard. He himself could be contemplating an exit from the Administration, and at Harvard there is no better way to exit than to land a University Professorship...
...long climb in two ways. Her first temporary job was typing in our business office. "I was so easily flustered," recalls Mrs. Werner, "that I accidentally locked myself in the fire stairway. I walked down 34 flights to the ground floor, where I saw a sign over the exit: ALARM WILL SOUND WHEN DOOR IS OPENED. So I took the only rational course of action. I walked all the way back...
...prison camp. They were convicted on lesser charges of spreading anti-Soviet propaganda and stealing "state or social ist property"-to wit, a duplicating machine, which Soviet citizens are forbidden to have. The authorities took no chances on the trial's outcome. Some defense witnesses were suddenly granted exit visas to Israel and told to depart before the court hearing. At least three others were shipped out of town on "business affairs"-two to Siberia-on pain of losing their jobs if they refused to go. The trials represent an attempt by Soviet officials to stem a rising Jewish...
...been given this book as strongly probable if not inevitable. Still, he has made the effort to deliver King from that place in the public mind, landscaped in huge mockups of magazine covers and television screens, in which King was imprisoned; because King himself attempted to make an exit from this cerebral desert, but was cut down for his courage and vision...
Hard-Line Successor. Though a measure of impatience in Moscow was most likely a factor in Ulbricht's exit, many analysts attributed his resignation chiefly to ill health. Ulbricht is an ardent health faddist who used to do rigorous daily exercises and still quaffs great quantities of a carrot-colored health drink. But for some time he has been unable to put in a full ten-hour day at his desk. He departed more gracefully than any East bloc party boss so far. He was able to hand-pick a successor whose views are as hard-line...