Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Berlin one night last week, an unsuspecting German was sauntering near a stretch of barbed wire that marked the barrier between the free and the Red sectors of the city. Suddenly two ragged, haggard and grim-faced young men popped out of nowhere, poked a pistol against the German stroller's chest. One of them rasped: "Take us to the American military police. If you hand us over to the Russians, we shoot you." The German hastily complied. Not far away a third young man, also armed, accosted a German waiting for an El train and had himself...
...same routine was repeated in the spring of 1952. But last June. Penelope seemed to be in a more sociable mood. When she scratched timidly at the wooden barrier that separated her from Cecil, the curators happily lifted Cecil over the barrier. Nothing overt was observed, but Penelope was no longer evasive and the two platypuses seemed to get along nicely. When the curators provided her with eucalyptus leaves. Penelope took them into the burrow. Since wild platypuses make their breeding nests out of just such leaves, the curators grew hopeful...
Mathematics Barrier...
...delay, Toriello made a new decision: "The show must not go on." "Thief!" "Gangster!" yelled the gate-crashers, showering the arena with bottles and refuse. Then, joined by angry ticketholders, they grabbed wooden chairs and seat cushions, and began hurling them into the arena. Breaking down the wooden ringside barrier, they heaped the debris in the arena and set fire to it all. They smashed half the toilets beneath the stands. When it was all over, 23 had been hurt, including eight cops...
Jockey Willie Shoemaker is usually a highly relaxed performer; he hunches up over his mount's neck and almost seems to let matters take their course. But, riding a colt named The Hoop last week, Willie was in a notable hurry. At the break from the barrier he got his horse off to a quick lead; when two other horses threatened to overtake him, Willie quickly went to the whip, drove hard all the way to the finish. The Hoop won by a neck, and the crowd at California's Golden Gate Fields sent up a roar...