Word: exits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rhetorical posy: "Oh, Shaw, there is not your equal now! When shall we see your like again!" A roguish wordmonger, O'Casey peppers each page with Joycean puns and wordplays, e.g., Tea Deum, imaginot line, the rust was silence. Ever the dramatist, O'Casey savors his exit with ..a tender salute to old age and a last toast to life: "The sun has gone, dragging her gold and green garlands down . . . Soon it will be time to kiss the world goodbye. An old man now, who, in the nature of things, might be called, out of the house...
...northern liberal wing of the party. Even as a humble Congressman, he played a prominent and highly disruptive role at the 1952 Democratic convention. The thought of Roosevelt at the 1956 convention, flushed with electoral victory, would have been enough to send the Southerners inquiring anxiously about the nearest exit. The peacemakers among the northern Democrats, who are attempting to ensure a united party in 1956, would not have been much happier about their prospects...
With both powers sticking fast to their stories, the U.S. had no choice but to follow diplomatic protocol and ask exit visas for Mrs. Sommerlatte and her husband...
...Route 15 east to Hartford, and continue on south along the Merritt Parkway, which joins the Henry Hudson Parkway north of New York City. Turn off the Hudson parkway at the George Washington Bridge, following the signs to the New Jersey Turnpike. Leave the turnpike at the New Brunswick exit and proceed about five miles to Route 1. Follow Route 1 until the signs for Princeton appear on the right...
...Unkindest Cutters. But what fed the headlines more than Democratic gags and diatribes was the Republican panic. G.O.P. candidates all but trampled Charlie Wilson in their rush for the nearest exit. Said Kentucky's Republican Senator Cooper: "Inexcusable, and I criticize it with all my strength." Said Massachusetts' Saltonstall: "Unfair!" New York's Ives and New Jersey's Case turned their backs on Charlie Wilson. In South Bend, Ind., hard hit by Studebaker layoffs, Republican Congressional Candidate Shep Crumpacker demanded his resignation. Then G.O.P. national headquarters was on the phone, asking Charlie Wilson to back...