Word: exits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advantage of a confusion second only to Burma's. To Siam's north lay China, the most tragic example of the contact between East & West. South and East of Siam were Indonesia and the Philippines, the most hopeful cases of what could happen after imperialism's exit. West and south of Siam was Malaya, where imperialism still had an uneasy grip...
...Link" was what the British called their part of an Allied agreement to take from Poland 25,000 Germans who had relatives in West Germany. The names of those D.P.s approved by the Western powers had been duly listed, but thousands of others, not on the lists, had got exit permits or entry papers (Zuzugsgenehmigungen) from Polish or Allied agencies...
...would fight for life and yell to attract attention, says Dr. Bowden. "Why," he asks, "should a healthy baby die without much fuss just because he is face downward or his face is covered? But a baby dying of natural disease might well be expected to make a quiet exit...
...brunt of their criticism. "The projection hall is in a very pitiful state," they wrote. "The walls are peeling and dirty, the chairs are broken. The customers have to sit in the dark before the show starts. Those who sit in the last rows get frozen, because the exit into the street is just behind them. The screen cannot be seen well from the last rows. When the customers complain, the manager explains: 'You cannot see if you are small and the man in front of you is tall...
...used the modern language" effectively and, altogether, it was "très intéressant." Pudgy Violinist Isaac Stern agreed. He had "worked and worked until the music was part of me." When his fiddling was finished, he grinned up into the balcony of Symphony Hall, then hammed his exit offstage, staggering as if brutally exhausted. Up in the balcony, smiling Composer William Schuman seemed satisfied with the rehearsal for the world premiere of his first concerto for violin and orchestra...