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Word: exits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mists at the runway's threshold. It was in trouble. Pilot Howard passed the word, "Abandon ship!" He and Sir Harry, in their ejector seats, shot upward from the aircraft, and their parachutes blossomed in the mist. But for the other four members of the crew, whose only exit was through the plane's underside, there was no chance. The Vulcan's nose cut earthward again, and the aircraft skidded along the concrete runway in a trail of blazing fuel. A thunderous explosion rent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hero's Welcome | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

Council Treasurer Albert F. Hofeld, Jr. '58 emphasized the increase in upper class donations, which he attributed to the Council's general record. He credited the bottleneck at the lone exit from Memorial Hall with increasing Freshman response. "They just had to stand there," he explained...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Council Plans Enlarged Activities Owing to Big Increase in Funds | 10/2/1956 | See Source »

...designer and dress designers. Last week in her one-woman show in the Persian Room of Manhattan's staid old Plaza Hotel, Songbird Lisa Kirk used all of this paraphernalia to display as much of her shapely figure as the law allows. But between her entrance and exit in scanties, she did manage to sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...voting comes out, I'm going to be pitching for you." (Loud cheers.) In any event, Nixon concluded, "I have been cussed and discussed-but everybody pretty well agrees that Pat's all right." (Pat Nixon blushed prettily, delegates rose cheering, headed happily for the fire-escape exit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE-PRESIDENCY: Unanimous Choice | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...Which last February refused to grant any more miners' exit permits for Belgium on the ground that mine security there was inadequate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: At the Bitter Heart | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

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