Word: exits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avery was the epitome of the autocratic tycoon who believed there was room at the top for only one. He battled the growth of labor unions, the New Deal and his own executives. (In 24 years as boss of Montgomery Ward, he had four presidents and 40 vice presidents exit suddenly.) One of the few battles he lost was to President Roosevelt and the U.S. during a wartime labor dispute. But he refused to retreat on his own feet. It took the U.S. Army to carry him out of his Chicago executive suite, giving news photographers a famed picture-while...
Lewis Nkosi, a 23-year-old journalist in Johannesburg, was awarded a Nieman Fellowship this year for study at the University. The South African government has agreed to grant him an exit permit provided he signs a declaration that he is leaving permanently...
...pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming up has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do." See SPORT, Exit Casey...
...Union Square. Reluctantly, they edged toward the door through the noontime jam. Just before they got outside, one of the sightseers asked his buddies to wait a moment; he wanted to buy some hair tonic. He elbowed back through the crush-and set his course for another exit. Once in the street, he started running. He had no destination, only a direction: west. Victor Jaanimets, 29, Soviet seaman from Estonia, wanted to put all the distance he could between himself and his ship, the Russian liner Baltika, which brought Khrushchev...
...flunk-outs (the "ambivalently wished-for station of Bums"), the Beat Generation whose "onslaughts on the Air-Conditioned nightmare...sound very much like the griping of soldiers who do not intend to mutiny"), the Angry Young Men (who attack the machine itself), French "existential youth" (saying "no exit"), and finally, the hipster (who "contents himself with a magical omnipotence never disproved because never tested...