Word: exits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Panama, the Cuna Indians recite from memory a 20-hour epic. In Umbria, Italy, when the funeral procession begins, the corpse leaves the house by the "dead man's door," a special exit never used for other purposes. In Bali, as in Burma, some of the floats and effigies paraded to the burning ground are so huge that 75 men are required to carry them. In Rumania, at the funeral of a girl of marriageable age, a young man volunteers to be her bridegroom, and he walks with her to the grave as if to the altar...
...forgiven for his role in the revolt last week by the Emperor on the grounds that he had acted "under duress") was scribbling his reply, loyalist tanks came charging through the palace gates. Richards scampered out a window in the nick of time-"it was the nearest available exit." Another U.S. official in a tight spot was Mrs. Oswald B. Lord of Minneapolis, who happened to be in Addis Ababa as the U.S. observer at a U.N.-sponsored seminar on "women in public life." As bullets whistled through the Ghion Hotel, Mrs. Lord recalls, "I sat on the floor...
Reclining in pink pajamas on a vast bed in Paris' Hotel George V, Count Jimmy confessed he had missed Fabiola's wedding because the Spanish government (reportedly at the request of the bride) refused him an exit permit as he tried to board a plane for Brussels...
Planned by John B. Sullivan and William J. Chase, the structure would go over the present trackless trolley enhance and exit at Mass Ave. and Cambridge St., opposite the Littauer Center. Excluded in the facilities would be an MTA passenger station and a parking lot on the ground floor...
...could not resist marching in Salvation Army parades. He argued that woman's place was in the home, but he was forever picking one up on the streets, and one memorably uncomfortable escapade took place on the steel staircase of the emergency exit at the Picadilly Circus tube station...