Word: exits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slipped out of their grip and fled into Rangoon's famed Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Police right behind him had to stop and remove their boots before entering the Buddhist temple. For most of a day bootless police combed its labyrinth of passages and rest houses, guarded every exit. They paid little heed to a bent and evidently blind nun who slowly made her way down the main steps. Not until much later did the police learn that the blind Buddhist nun was Communist Thakin...
...defeat, it was high time the Big Four (Germany, Russia, Italy, Japan) divided the British Empire. Hitler added that as Germany and Russia had already settled their spheres of interest in eastern Europe "without friction," they should have no trouble settling bigger problems. For example, would Russia like an exit to the free, warm...
...Exit Laughing. In Chile Island, Chile, Narcisco Quezada and Friend Violeta Munoz confessed that they had tied Violeta's husband to a table, tickled his feet until he choked to death with laughter...
...Exit from Peenemünde. Greatest technical triumph of Nazi Germany was the V-2 rocket, prototype of the guided missiles which may dominate future wars. The V-2 project (code name "E.W.," for Elektromechanische Werke) was pushed with all the secrecy and urgency which surrounded the U.S. "Manhattan District." The rockets were developed and tested at Peenemünde on the Baltic, and manufactured in a vast underground factory at Nordhausen, east of Kassel...
...Paris as anti-American, protested with a reasonableness so sweet that it seemed oldfashioned. He just did not understand, said he, what anti-American meant. "One finds [in the U.S.] ways . . . which are excellent," he hummed, "and some which are not so good." (M. Sartre's No Exit was to open on Broadway this week...