Word: exits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That bell-ringer, usually a roofer from International Service Systems, will maintain telephone contact with a ground crew. With the ground crew's instruction, he will ring for entrance and exit of the morning and afternoon Commencement processions, and at the memorial services held by members of the three major reunions...
...first time in as long as anyone can remember, University police locked the Yard up tight, prohibiting entry or exit. Police described the activists as "outsiders" and refused to allow them to "trespass...
...shopper at Manhattan's Alexander's department store tried on a $99.95 raincoat, according to a store detective, then ripped off the price tags and headed for the exit. The would-be shoplifter? None other than Iran's United Nations Ambassador Said Rajaie-Khorassani. Diplomatic immunity ruled out prosecution, but instead of quietly dropping the matter, the store reported the incident, which took place on May 7, to New York City police last week. The indignant Iranian ambassador thereupon called a press conference at which he insisted that he had merely been searching for a three-way mirror...
...poker game in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. The fatal date was Aug. 2, 1876. Hickok did not have a chance to draw for either a full house or his life. The bullet went in the left side of his head and came out through his right cheek, leaving a crosslike exit mark. Pete Dexter's novel is packed with grisly details (the severed head of an outlaw, the emergency treatment of gunshot wounds and syphilis), although not all agree with history. McCall was hanged for the killing, but in the Dexter version, the jury takes one hour to acquit the assassin...
Soviet emigration policy has become more stringent since Mikhail Gorbachev's succession to the top Soviet post, and Jews now have little hope of gaining exit visas, the Goldstein brothers said. But at the same time, would-be emigres who do not raise a public protest suffer less persecution than in the past, they said...