Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ceremony, outgoing President Eduardo Frei removed from his shoulder the red, white and blue striped Banda de Bernardo O'Higgins-the symbol of presidential power. Allende, the sash draped over his own shoulder, exchanged an abrazo with Frei, who then left, according to tradition, by a rear exit. He was greeted by the most prolonged ovation of the week, evidence that he might have easily won re-election had he not been barred from succeeding himself. But the rest of the day belonged to Allende...
When the firemen arrived, they were struck by an unusual silence. Only a few flames could be seen flickering through the roof of the fortress-like, cinder-block building, and the men assumed that it was a minor fire. But when they pried open an emergency exit at Le Cinq-Sept, a popular dance hall for youths in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont near Grenoble, two of the firemen fainted. Bodies were stacked before them in ghastly contortions of agony. Fists were literally fried against the locked door. Impressions of hands, arms and heads were fused into the cement wall. Almost...
When ROTC began its exit from the Harvard campus, Golden lost his sizable scholarship...
Then I searched for the exit. While I filed out I heard one red-cheeked girl of 12 or so remark, "Did you see how he danced? I was ballin in my seat...
Pennoyer stood at the exit to the Lowell courtyard with one policeman, while two others searched the House. As the man approached the exit with a $300 camera slung over his shoulder, Pennoyer pointed him out, and the police stopped him for questioning...