Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...food riots were halted by the municipal government's "discovery" of 1,300 tons of rice hoarded outside the South Gate (apparently by an unnamed government agency). This cache was distributed to rice shops and a rationing system instituted. At the same time new currency regulations temporarily stabilized the plummeting gold yuan and provided for the issuance of gold and silver coins...
London's publicans were setting up their nightly cry of "Time, gentlemen" and were just closing when the long vigil at the palace gates was at last rewarded. At 10:10 p.m., from out of the palace bustled a young, blue-clad page. He whispered a word to the bobby at the gate. The bobby nodded. "It's a boy," he announced solemnly, then, throwing his chest out and his head full back, he shouted for all to hear; "A Prince has been born...
When the scarlet-coated ringmaster blew his horn, a Mexican was first to try the tricky H-course. His horse seemed to glide over the first barrier (gate & towers), then the hedge and the cannon (a wooden cannon, 3 ft. 9 in. high). The rider was completely relaxed. The French got off to a humiliating start-their first horse refused to take the first jump-and looked tense and hesitant in the saddle. The Canadians made no bones about the fact that they were trying to copy the fluid riding style of the Mexicans. By week...
...boys will sit in the steel stands, paying only a dime of the 30-cent Federal tax fee while PBH pays the rest. A special entrance--gate 21--will receive the settlement house guests...
When the great day came Princess Elizabeth, expecting her child in mid-November, stayed behind at Buckingham Palace. She was looking out of a window when the Irish State Coach (built for Queen Victoria's visit to Dublin) left the palace gate. Londoners packed along the procession route stopped blowing their noses and forgot the biting October wind. A rustling murmur went up: "Here they come...