Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miracle." That night, under a starlit sky, the crowds shuffled nervously about the gate of Maria's house. She appeared to them on her balcony. She wanted to die, she said, in the presence of the faithful. Somewhat later, the tinkle of a little silver bell in the darkness announced the passage of the village priest coming to perform the last rites of the church for Maria. Near midnight a cry went up: "She's sweating! She's sweating!" A deep shiver ran through the crowd. Then, above the dim hubbub of questions, a shrill exalted voice...
...Beau was through as a battler-even if he wouldn't admit it. In the locker room after the fight, he muttered through swollen lips: "I'd like one more fight-I'd like to get Williams again." Beau's share of the gate - $13,671- wasn't much to retire on after his manager got through taking...
...neck & neck with I.N.P. Like every other picture editor, Blumenfeld has tried many a trick to score a beat. He thinks his best was at the 1928 Gene Tunney-Tom Heeney heavyweight fight at Yankee Stadium. Dressed in a white intern's coat, Blumenfeld waited outside the stadium gate in an ambulance...
...Fortunato Ornelar Anguiano, a 52-year-old dishwasher, walked out on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, borrowed a cigarette from a passerby, lit it, took one drag, leaped up on the bridge rail, flipped the cigarette away and jumped. He was the 100th to die by jumping in the eleven years since the bridge was built...
...white hope" never came up, Joe Louis, the slow-thinking Alabama boy, was a champion the whole U.S. was proud of. No taint of suspicion ever hung over any of his 61 pro fights (although he was managed for years by racket men). The gate receipts grossed a whopping $11,000,000 of which his share...