Word: barriere
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...Full participation in our society can no longer be reserved to men of one color," he said. "We intend to press forward with legislation, with education, and with action, until we have eliminated the last barrier of intolerance. For as long as freedom is denied to some, the liberty of each of us is in danger." Though the audience was well larded with Southern Democrats, Johnson was applauded four times in six sentences...
Once again Awori bashed his ankle in the hurdles, hitting the second barrier hard in the 60-yard race, and colliding with the last one in a smash-up that sent him sprawling on all fours at the finish. The Ugandan star finished third behind sophomore Touy Lynch and Dartmouth's Jim Season...
...wasn't. Before long, the outer walls began to bulge, window frames buckled and bricks began to peel off. So great was the danger that a barrier had to be erected around the whole building to protect passers-by from getting clobbered by falling bricks. When investigating engineers tore away a wall, they discovered gaping holes in the cement undersurface as well as other alarming examples of shoddy workmanship. The VA kept patching up the structure, finally decided to strip off every one of the hospital's 1,575,000 bricks, remove all 5,000 windows and window...
...hard projectile that can easily whack a hole in the edge of a wing; jet engines suck up birds like giant vacuum cleaners and suffer serious internal damage. One Dutch military pilot was almost killed when his jet inhaled five gulls on take-off and crashed into a barrier. Another crashed after vacuuming a flock of partridges. In 1959, 25% of Dutch military aircraft was out of action because of bird trouble...
...masking the watchtowers of Berlin's Wall and gathering in bright droplets on the bars of its newly installed steel gates. Suddenly, Communist searchlights poked white fingers into the fog, and the deep-throated barking of the Grenzpolizei's watchdogs echoed off the brick and barbed-wire barrier. A British military policeman scanned the Spree for escaping swimmers, but soon the searchlights flicked off, the dogs quieted, and the only sound was the rhythmic slam of Grepo boots on the cobblestones across the way. "They either got the poor bugger," muttered the MP, "or they were just seeing...