Word: exits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intoxicated trigger finger. Given, who was in trouble back in 1948 for threatening an old man with a sword cane, set off a disturbance last week by visiting a children's party with five pistols, and firing blank cartridges in salvos while the kiddies fled, screaming, from every exit...
...Exit Charlie. In the public eye, the WSB recommendations gave Phil Murray's case the sanctity of an impartial Government verdict. Mobilizer Charles Wilson tried to convince Harry Truman that industry should get a $5-to-$6-a-ton price increase if it signed a wage agreement on the basis of the WSB report. But when Price Stabilizer (and good Democrat) Ellis Arnall heard of the Wilson-Truman conversations, Arnall persuaded the President that any price increase was unwise for two reasons: 1) economics, 2) politics. Wilson stormed back to his office and wrote out his resignation. Murray...
Self-Realization disciples claim that their teacher thus performed mahasamadhi (a yogi's conscious exit from the body). The medical verdict was "acute coronary occlusion," i.e., a heart attack...
...constant stream of baskets containing fish, cheese, soup and meat passed through the gate to be sent below. With the baskets went an occasional note. "If you don't come up, I'll go away forever," wrote one wife. Her husband scrambled out of the emergency exit. By the end of the 30th day, 28 others had followed the same route...
Last week, as he finished his last lecture, the Buzzer did not stage his usual exit to the fanfare of the class bell. This time, Joseph R. Strayer, chairman of the history department, detained him and said he had an announcement. In the Buzzer's honor, said Strayer, past & present members of his classes were setting up 1) a fund for an annual Walter Phelps Hall prize for the best senior thesis in European history and 2) a fund for a series of annual lectures to be given in his name...