Word: exits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Exit Bug. Most jockeys grow up on horseback; Ted traveled on foot until eight years ago. He was through high school-so rare an accomplishment among jockeys that pressagents call him "College-bred"-and loading trucks in a chemical plant when the boss noticed Ted's wiry, small frame, and wangled him a job as exercise boy at the Greentree Stable. Within three years he had won more than 40 races and got rid of his "bug" (the * after an apprentice jockey's name...
...gland occurs in most men over 50 and about half of them have some prostate trouble. An estimated 17 to 20% of men past 50 develop prostatic cancer. This also happens to dogs and lions. The dangerous gland, situated at the lower part of the bladder next to the exit, rarely gives much warning (common first symptom: difficulty in urinating) until the cancer is beyond surgery...
...manager was steaming down the center aisle, down the boys gave up employment on the spot and executed a swift retreat by way of a convenient fire exit...
...romps and fights to his, and our, heart's content. Bit when matters are turned over to the tender mercies of Grace George, the afere-mentioned lovable old lady, her sweetness soon turns into a sticky goo which moved the spirit to feel like moving toward the nearest exit...
...become a nightmare of exploding planes and disappearing friends. Lieut. Colonel Beirne Lay Jr. described the sensations and sights of the Regensburg raid in last week's Saturday Evening Post: "A shining silver rectangle of metal sailed past over our right wing. I recognized it as a main-exit door. Seconds later, a black lump came hurtling through the formation, barely missing several propellers. It was a man, clasping his knees to his head, revolving like a diver in a triple somersault, shooting by us so close that I saw a piece of paper blow out of his leather...