Word: exits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Exit. In Moundsville, W. Va., five prisoners escaped from Camp Fair Chance during its first week of operation...
...Exit the Marines. There was much in the occupation to trouble the U.S. conscience. Puppet Presidents, all of the elite class, were shuttled in & out. With almost embarrassing speed, the U.S. gave Haiti a new constitution, masterminded by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt; the document removed the defiant clause of all 16 previous Haitian constitutions forbidding foreigners to own land. Officers from the U.S. South ("they know how to handle the blacks, you know") humiliated highbred Haitians...
...Israeli legation on Valentine's Day 1949, dancing and crying "Long live Israel." After 15 years of Fascist pogroms and four more of Communist misery, the exhilarating dream of the promised land had suddenly become a reality. Thousands sold their last belongings to buy fantastically priced exit permits and steamship tickets, bade goodbye to their children and set forth to Israel, empty-handed but hopeful. By the end of 1951, when the Reds suddenly ordered a stop to emigration, 120,000 of Rumania's 350,000 Jews (the largest Jewish community in any satellite) had poured through Haifa...
...Manhattan, Funnyman Jackie Gleason made a flying exit from his TV show. Carrying an electric fan and a bag of flour, Gleason stepped on a slippery spot left by dry ice, catapulted offstage and into the wings. While the CBS switchboard was lit up by calls from anxious fans, he was rushed to Doctors Hospital where examination revealed Gleason had suffered fractures of his right leg and ankle, would be out of action for "several weeks...
When ballet connoisseurs start talking about the esthetics of their subject, the average citizen beats his way out of the pink-tinted fog to the nearest exit. George Balanchine, the most effective maker of ballets now living, has a refreshingly realistic way of getting down to esthetic fundamentals...