Word: exits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bang out of his bat, Joe could still play the game-from memory-better than most outfielders. He obviously wanted to call it quits while he was still on top. But, like most champions, he could not quite bring himself to the final exit. On Yankee President Dan Topping's urging, he agreed to think it over before making up his mind for good...
...could escape or hide in event of danger. When Bennett built a home near Ann Arbor, Ford got him to build a tower with a secret door "as an escape for the children," and connect it with a hidden tunnel in the yard. "However," writes Bennett, "the secret exit was never used. At the end of the tunnel, I kept my lion and tiger cages...
...bounty" in the midst of what was described as the "ancient and fishlike smell" of University Hall. The discontinuation of grace allegedly can be traced to the resulting disturbance. And beyond doubt, it was just this attitude on the part of the student body that precipitated the final exit of overcooked ducks from University Hall, and the entrance of deans...
From these deeps Cowper never rose again. A "secret negative" forbade him even to pray. He walked the cliff edges, hoping against hope that he would fall; but such easy exit was denied him. "Oh wretch!" he groaned, "to whom death and life are alike impossible!" In April of 1800 his sturdy physique mercifully collapsed at last, and the release of death came to William Cowper...
Part of the work was shown at the Vatican itself last summer (TIME, Aug. 14) and caused no such furor. But in the three weeks since Academician d'Ors' exit, Madrid's art critics and Catholic intellectuals have loudly locked horns over the propriety, if not the morality, of the whole idea...