Word: exits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Partridge analyses are liberally flavored with allusions to the Bible, history, mythology and fiction (Gilbert & Sullivan and the Pickwick Papers are great favorites). Sometimes he personifies the elements (a lagging raincloud is a "queenly tragedienne, making a majestic exit into the wings"). Sometimes literal-minded listeners write him long, cross, reproving letters...
...jewels; its amiable people (according to one historian) "caused no governor-general a sleepless night." In 1942 the British awoke; as British troops retreated from Burma, the conquering Japanese made quick friends among Burmese politicians. In 1943, the British returned as liberators, but only to prepare a graceful exit...
Goateed Sir Hubert Wilkins, 47, intrepid Arctic explorer, faced a new challenge: in Seattle a stalled elevator trapped him (and the operator) between floors for ten minutes. Sir Hubert finally fought his way back to civilization by clambering up through the emergency exit...
...sorry, you must get the exit visa this morning," said the agent firmly. "This is the rule...
...Embassy's shield. Moscow translated the incident into a "stoning" of the embassy, put Brazilian Ambassador Mario de Pimentel Brandão and his entourage of nine under hotel arrest. Only when the Rio Soviet Embassy staff of 32 were safely off for Montevideo would Pimentel & friends get exit visas...