Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rather than concluding with a bang. The remnants of Amin's forces, accompanied by most of the 2,700 troops sent by Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi to help him, had retreated to Jinja, Uganda's second largest city. Some observers thought the Tanzanians had deliberately left the exit route east from Kampala open to permit the Libyans a face-saving exodus by an airstrip at Jinja some 60 miles to the east of the capital...
Soprano Leontyne Price brought a hush to the crowd with Verdi's Pace, Pace, Mio Dio, and then the guests began to file slowly out of the tent. Like a contented preacher, White House Aide Hamilton Jordan stood at the exit, shaking hands and clasping shoulders. "Begin for President," he said, and the Israeli Premier embraced him. Inside the White House, where there was champagne and dancing, the Marine Band was playing Cole Porter's Well, Did You Evah! which ends with the line "What a swell party this...
Sister Peggy Comfrey, co-chairman of the committee, said the drive will cover Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine and "will seek signatures from Jordan Marsh customers as they enter and exit the stores...
...moment exit from Iran is almost impossible. Perhaps the United States could help people who wish to leave Iran to do so. Admittedly, there are implications of "intervention" here, and in view of the United States' poor experience in countries where it has intervened, it is questionable whether such a policy should be pursued even in this case. But intervention has many facets and a Vietnam-type or Chile-type intervention is not being proposed here. Furthermore, the success of such a policy depends on how one chooses to define success: if success means avoiding possible setbacks in relations with...
...grand entrance and the grand exit were not for the reclusive DeNiro. He slipped into the Hasty Pudding Club by a back entrance, and after accepting his award, blended into the audience to view the Pudding's burlesque...