Word: exits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Provided that, of course, one has survived the Christmas journey into that country without having to exit through the underworld of dunning creditors, debt-consolidation loans and bankruptcy court. Over the past month or so, the morning mail has been reviving unmerry Yuletide recollections in millions of households, as the bills have cascaded in. From department stores for the toys, furs, watches, gowns, cameras, TV games bought with the "holiday money" that the stores sent out in November (how far away that "first payment not due till February" seemed then). From credit-card companies for the drinks so expansively signed...
...brand-name distributors. Smoke detectors work either through photo-electric cells or an ionization device,? but fire officials generally agree that there is minimal difference in effectiveness between the two. They also warn that the occupants' chances of escape from a burning dwelling rest ultimately on a prearranged exit plan well understood by all family members...
...Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn swam for shore in "The African Queen" last Friday night in Science Center B, moviegoers were told to exit only through the Yard doors and to watch out for broken glass...
Three times a week for the past dozen years, Maxine Cheshire has spun out a column of capital chatter-Spiro Agnew's literary adventures, Elizabeth Taylor's offstage antics at the Kennedy Center, Muhammad Ali's hasty exit from a White House party-that the Washington Post and some 300 subscribing newspapers generally inter among the family pages. In recent months, however, Cheshire's byline has been strutting on the front page above scoops on the hottest continuing scandal of the year: alleged efforts by South Korean agents to bribe U.S. Congressmen...
...restless. Since the spring, 200,000 of them have sought permission to emigrate, obviously taking seriously the promise of freer travel and reunification of families made by the East Berlin regime when it signed the European security accord at last year's Helsinki Conference. But only 10,275 exit visas have been granted, and most of them to elderly people. Applicants have frequently been fired from their jobs and been subjected to police searches. Some have been severely beaten by "indignant citizens" working for the police...