Word: chain-link
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...upon whose crest is a cross, a more permanent version of the one Japanese Christians had placed there Easter morning 1943. But the barracks that were frigid in winter, broiling in summer, and crowded always are gone. What remains now are concrete foundations and a few scattered sections of chain-link fence topped with strands of barbed wire, forcing the visitors to search their hearts and memories to evoke what it once...
...Robert Frost's poem Mending Wall. Frost's character would make an ideal resident of Leisure Village, a 600-acre Lakewood, N.J., retirement community of 5,000 residents. The homes are guarded by a 24-hour security force. The community is bordered by a 6-ft. chain-link fence, and four years ago residents reluctantly topped one section of the fence with barbed wire after a rash of invasions by pranksters. But a mugging early last summer and recent car break-ins and gasoline siphonings have frightened the village's board of trustees to finish what they...
Once they reached the water's edge, the marchers tore down part of a chain-link fence and quickly swarmed around all sides of the dock...
...Ulbricht ordered the Wall built. Now there is an elaborate network of installations along the entire 100-mile demarcation line that separates West Berlin from East Germany. At last count, it included 242 watchtowers, 137 bunkers, 249 dog patrols, some 65 miles of concrete wall and 35 miles of chain-link fencing, as well as assorted electronic-surveillance devices, lO-ft.-deep trenches and triple-pronged concrete pylons similar to the tank traps of World...
They have taken down the 9-ft-high chain-link fence between Panama City's Legislative Palace and the adjacent Canal Zone-a fence that Panamanian newspapers like to compare to the Berlin Wall. In the palace itself they have built a false floor and then erected an exact replica of the U.N. Security Council conference table in New York. The only difference is that the legs are wooden instead of steel. "We don't have any steel industry here," explained the Panamanian official in charge of the affair...