Word: exits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When superstars exit from professional sports, they usually settle into comfortable and lucrative careers as shaving-cream endorsers, insurance salesmen or sportscasters. When Center Willis Reed left the New York Knicks three years ago, he went home to Bernice, La., to relax with his family. But the lure of the basketball court-and fond memories of his cheering fans during the Knicks' glory years-proved too strong. He eventually became a scout for his old team, and in March he signed on for a three-year stint as coach. At rookie camp at Monmouth College in New Jersey last...
While the librarians madly scrambled for these orphaned ink'guns, someone spotted an unusually fat student running towards the exit. An official shouted 'stop him!' the student was tackled, and the mystery was solved: as the corpulent criminal went flying, his coat flew open, and enough pens to staff the Pentagon came flying out, blissfully freed. Psychiatrists were summoned to the scene when it was proved that the fanatical pen-depositer was actually a crazed grad student, seeking revenge upon the institution on which he had fed in the only way he knew: sabotage...
...Back) in the elevator, the minutes passed, I searched frantically for an exit, and we never said a word. Did I pass out? Did the elevator eventually start of its own accord, as the Gods had determined that they had played with me enough? I only know that I somehow made it through that day, that year, and I now see her on the street and smile foolishly, and she walks past, sailing indomitably onwards in that world of hers where embarrassed boys never talk to you and elevators never break down...
Your article "The Constant Quest for Safety" stated that one recommendation of an FAA panel to improve cabin safety is "giving crews better training for emergencies" and "making sure that flight attendants man the exit doors during a landing instead of frantically collecting cocktail glasses...
...example, the new anti-growth puritans, enemies of enlarging G.N.P., also use the present situation to reinforce their arguments (though without a sensible rate of growth, the American society is marked for a stagnation in which the poor and disfranchised are given no exit). Can differing visions-not to mention the ordinary, everyday desire to get along-be pulled together into a joint resolve under that Jamesian phrase...