Word: exits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...custom the seats behind the exit door had become "colored" seats, and no matter how many whites were standing, any black sitting behind the exit door knew he or she wouldn't have to move. The disputed area was opposite the exit door. This was no man's land. White people sat there and black people sat there. If the back section was full, the next black passenger who got on sat in the no man's land seat; but if the white section filled up, a white person would take the seat. The white people, though...
...Kremlin leaders complained, with justification, that this heavyhanded attempt to link economic rewards with exit visas constituted interference in their internal affairs. This kind of explicit, narrowly defined "linkage" tends always to stiffen Soviet backs. Linkage must be an underlying factor in the calculations on both sides rather than a stark equation by itself, such as the formula that freer emigration would equal freer trade, or that a Soviet pullout from Afghanistan would equal ratification of SALT...
...Lovelace, is the "original Deep Throat." And she has the lung capacity to prove it, extinguishing a cigarette in one drag for emphasis. On her coffeetable are photographs of past lovers all of whom she has apparently felled with her oral ferocity. Our hero realizes it's time to exit when he sees a team snapshop of the entire local soccer club...
After seeing that my friend did not have an exit permit, he demanded that we return to the Iranian side. "Authorities are already arranging your extradition," he said. "It is in your interest to come back on your...
Luckily, nightmares of a term in the presidential clink disappear as a familiar press office face turns up in the vestibule of the Oval Office. "We're on any minute now," is the latest word. And indeed, Allen soon makes his joking exit, the large door is reopened, and the tall, dark-haired man can be seen standing next to his desk. He buttons his jacket as the unfamiliar visitor makes his entrance...