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Word: exits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hagar was on her way out of the stadium three minutes before the end of the game when she tripped or fell at the point where the aisle narrowed down along side of an exit. she feel head first, hitting her head against a bench or stair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Woman Sues College In Cornell Game Fall; Witnesses Are Sought | 4/13/1951 | See Source »

...shrugged her mink stole higher on her shoulders, ran a gauntlet of photographers, paused to shout, "You god dam bastards, I hope an atom bomb falls on all of you." Near the door she slapped a woman reporter for good measure. Even for Ginny it was quite an exit. The senators, a bit flustered, had learned exactly nothing about her suspected role as bank courier for the overlords of U.S. crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Crime Hunt in Foley Square | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...Exit. In Baltimore, Richard Mobely, caught by police in a holdup attempt, explained: "I was trying to raise enough money to get a divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 15, 1951 | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...Britain about Puddy-Tat last week. Mocked a columnist in "London's News Chronicle: "Dis is wot de gwown-ups sing, diddums." Disc Jockey Costa had received several mildly abusive letters from anti-puddy-tatters. Sample: "Take a firm grip on your puddy-tat record, face the exit, then bend down with your back to the record that gives you the greatest kick." Asked if he felt any guilt for his part in launching Britain on its current baby-talk rage, Costa looked hurt. "Not at all," he said. "I believe in giving the people what they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: What the People Want | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...grizzled old Buddhist Wizard of Kalimpong specializes in freeing the struggling spirits of the dying. This he accomplishes by sticking a hollow tube down the dying man's throat to provide a spiritual exit; at the same time the Wizard toots a horn made of a human thigh bone. The Wizard might be thought eccentric elsewhere, but not in Kalimpong (pop. 8,800), a zany Indian town straddling a 4,000-foot ridge in the Himalayan foothills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Haven't We Met? | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

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