Word: exits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more imaginative friend describes it, "Some famous wit--was it Dr. Johnson?--said of a sentence of hanging that 'it concentrates the mind wonderfully'. So also jumping--in particular that delirious moment of exit--concentrates consciousness in a blindingly bright, diamond hard point. Mind has triumphed; this is the moment of pure reason...
...pretty deeply. It can force you in on yourself as never before, and it can take you away from yourself--for four seconds--as never before. It isn't all terror, nor is it all thrill. Nor does the adventure last for only the few minutes of decent from exit to landing...
...York espionage trial, testimony was given that Robert and his younger brother Jack (who spells his name Soble) had arrived in the U.S. in the early '40s, after promising Russian Spy Boss Lavrenty Beria that they would spy for the Communists in exchange for exit visas for some 15 relatives. The brothers became American citizens. Robert and his wife Dina, also a psychiatrist, took positions at an institution near New York City. Throughout World War II and into the '50s, Robert Soblen and Jack Soble turned over to the Soviets secret U.S. information; much of it dealt with...
...votes, while Alsop had 309 and May 302. Foreseeing the end, Wallace withdrew, and on the eighth ballot Alsop was nominated, 337 to May's 317. Puffing contentedly on a black pipe, Alsop dismissed the rift in the party, said: "I'm a pretty good patcher." Exit. The long count pushed the convention into an unscheduled third day to select a candidate to succeed Republican Senator Prescott Bush, 67, who had an nounced only four weeks ago that he did not have the physical strength to seek and serve another term. Immediately...
...July 1 referendum, which is certain to be won by Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems, a bloodbath is feared. Said a refugee: "We heard reports that on the day after referendum, Moslems will sweep into the European parts of Algiers and kill everyone." So great is the exit rush that even the S.A.O. has backed down from its unenforceable order that no European can leave Algeria without S.A.O. permission...