Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coming up to the final jump, a 4½-ft. spruce barrier, a pair of long shots, Nickel Coin (40-to-1) and Royal Tan (22-to-1), were neck & neck. Royal Tan crashed into the final hurdle, limped home across the finish line as Nickel Coin breezed to a six-length victory. A poor third: Derrinstown, who threw his rider but was remounted...
...German Minister of Heavy Industry, Fritz Selbermann. She had fled to the Western sector, and the two East German police in the automobile had kidnaped her and were taking her back to the Russian area. The Western police arrested one of the East German policemen. Slamming down the zone barrier, the East German guards threatened to keep the international highway closed until their captured comrade was returned. An hour later, the barrier went up again. The arrested East German policeman had asked for and obtained asylum in the Western sector of Berlin...
...were surprising words. I should not have been surprised if the voice had commanded me to stop drinking. But this was not the message at all ... My self was my trouble-my love of myself, my fear of anything that might frustrate my wishes . . . False pride had erected a barrier between my soul and God. This pride had to go-in one way or another. I am grateful now that it was taken away-even through alcoholism...
...National Council's first president, Bishop Sherrill. When the delegates to the National Council's constituting convention elected Bishop Sherrill its first president, they did not pick a veteran wheelhorse of the ecumenical movement. Nor were they singling out one of the sparkplugs of U.S. Protestantism-a barrier-breaking theologian like Reinhold Niebuhr or a hard-hitting polemicist like Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam. They were simply picking the best...
Chipping the Barrier. Although he found the old race barriers still in existence, Reporter Rowan also found that they are being chipped away. On Atlantic Coast Line's Palmetto, between Washington and Charleston, where five years ago Ensign Rowan, U.S.N.R. had to eat at a curtain-rigged table, Newsman Rowan ate in an open diner-thanks to the Supreme Court decision outlawing Jim Crow in dining cars on interstate trains. In New Orleans, by showing his Naval Reserve card, he even got a Pullman berth...