Word: exits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the mallet was not Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, as some wags suggested. He was a mason and he was making a new exit under orders from the U.N. fire marshal. But when he finished, there would be a new door for Gromyko to walk...
...ever been in India. In Calcutta, Hindus dragged eleven Moslems from a train, hacked them to death. At Amritsar 120 were killed, hundreds injured in rioting between Sikhs and Moslems. But none attacked the once-hated British, who could thank two men for the heightened prestige of their graceful exit...
...arresting Stephen T. Thuransky, a naturalized American who had told Hungarians what he thought of their Communist-run Government. Thuransky fought his way free of guards, found overnight sanctuary in the U.S. Legation. Next day, with his family, he was whisked out of Budapest by U.S. plane. His Russian exit clearance, obtained in three hours, was the fastest on record...
...Varsity five made a dramatic exit later on in the Arena, however, when it handed Yale a 46 to 42 defeat, thanks to three points by substitute forward Jack Noble in the last 52 seconds of play. The winter track team choked the Buildog 55 to 45 at New Haven...
Visitors to McCormick's office find him sitting in lonely magnificence behind a great marble desk that dwarfs grandfather Medill's plain wooden one, standing near by. When they get up to leave, they find no exit. Sometimes McCormick lets them stand there, in mounting confusion; then, with a glacial chuckle, he taps a kickplate in the baseboard and a panel in the wall springs open. He is enough of a gadget-lover to wear a watch on each wrist. One is a fancy computing chronometer. "Tells what day it is, too," he says. "Very convenient when traveling...