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Word: exits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...move. Keep quiet. God is with us." One who did not obey was Mordechai Rahamim, 22, an ex-paratrooper whom El Al preferred to call an armed passenger but who was evidently a hired security agent. Holding a .22-caliber Beretta automatic, he jumped from an emergency exit and ran toward the attackers, firing as he went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Terror in Two Cities | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...official announcement the content of which he knew days before; make him an officer and expect him to believe in these absurdities. The mind boggles briefly and then realizes that the Army is something to be borne and that dignity and fulfillment will have to be sought elsewhere. Exit one valuable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 24, 1969 | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...Unlike your business reporter, I was cheered to learn of Norway's exit from the 18th century endeavor of whale hunting [Nov. 29]. Will the final exit of this industry be the result of responsible action by civilized nations or the extinction of these remarkable mammals? May a whale always be a whale, not margarine, dog food and then a memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 13, 1968 | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

Another problem is the revolutionaries' lack of enthusiasm. In one scene, as the revolutionaries go off to fight, they exit with inspirational mottos ("Long live the revolution," etc.), but they speak their lines so insipidly that you'd think they were on their way to an Advocate meeting...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: Pantagleize | 12/7/1968 | See Source »

...enthusiasm. The play works so well here because all the characters are involved in the same activity, the trial, and all are, finally, very loose. In the epilogue Pantagleize roams on a darkened stage, amid more corpses than there are at the end of Hamlet, looking for an imaginary exit. Here is de Ghelderode's metaphor for modern existence: we are all dying in a trap without even knowing why. Miss Ebenstein's robust direction and Gordon Ferguson's fine acting wring every possible drop of pain from the jolting final scene...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: Pantagleize | 12/7/1968 | See Source »

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