Word: exits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Baptist Foreign Mission Society promptly ordered Dr. Phelps home to explain (TIME, Jan. 1, 1951). In Manhattan last week, 4½ months after he finally got an exit visa from China, Dr. & Mrs. Phelps reported to the board. The directors wanted to know why he had made his pro-Communist remarks, as well as a statement that the South Koreans, not the Communists, were the aggressors in Korea...
...Nell Gwyn to pop out of the merry monarch's bed and slip behind the arras. The moment the good queen spied Nell's dainty slipper on the floor, she tumbled to the situation, of course, and delicately repaired her breach of court etiquette with a hasty exit and a solicitous hope that the lady might not "take cold...
...Down Escalator. When they heard the bad news, the Sokolowskis showed no emotion: repeated disappointments have made people like the Sokolowskis dull-eyed and apathetic. Blocking their exit is a barricade of bureaucratic tests, sensible safeguards imposed by governments who are glad to admit the useful, but firmly exclude the physically ailing and the politically suspect. They have been picked over like animals, their teeth inspected, their arms examined. Some lack the ability to work; some are ex-Communists, or are rejected on the grounds of moral turpitude-which may mean either that they stole some bread or coal...
Abraham Teitelbaum's shakedown story opened the door for another sudden exit from the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Day after the Chicago lawyer testified, Charles Oliphant, the bureau's chief counsel, dashed off an angry letter of resignation to Harry Truman. The charge that he was part of a clique seeking payoffs was "fantastic," he said. The "attacks, vilification, rumor and innuendo are beyond the point of human endurance...
Wandered into "New England's Largest Doll House." Doll behind counter was pouring orange juice down the mouth of one of the plastic dolls. "Then you just pull out this little pan and empty the doll, and she's ready for a refill." Made a hasty exit to the toy trains department...