Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today the weathered, reddish-grey walls of the abbey's gate tower are flanked by modern lecture halls and a swimming pool. But students proudly point out their abbey's heavy-beamed library, in which Parliament sat during the 17th Century's civil wars. A public (i.e., private) school for the past 25 years, St. Albans now takes in some 450 boys, nearly all sons of townsmen, at a modest tuition of ?15 ($60) per term...
...days before the big bout, the secret leaked out: Jacobs, fearful that fans might stay away from Yankee Stadium if they knew the fight would be televised, had gagged the network and the sponsor. Too much ballyhoo in advance might spoil his chances of a hoped-for million-dollar gate. This week, satisfied with the look of his box office, Jacobs gave NBC a nod. Eastern set owners could relax, and bartenders prepared to handle the biggest crowds in history...
House at Hell Gate. As head of the city's government, he lives at Gracie Mansion, a fine, 15-room Colonial house built in 1799 by one of the city's early merchant princes, a Scot named Archibald Gracie. Like many another New Yorker, O'Dwyer loves the house. It sits amid sweeping lawns just above the East River Drive near Hell Gate, a spot which General George Washington once fortified against the British. He is served by a maid, a cook, a gardener, a police chauffeur and a butler with an Irish brogue and a gift...
Next day he did become the ruler of the Old City, though not of the Jewish-held modern town. In the morning two aged rabbis, Clutching their, long black robes about them and waving white flags, picked their way through the rubble of the' Jewish quarter toward Zion Gate. They had come to offer surrender in the name of the Old City's little (1,500) colony of Orthodox Jews and its smaller remaining band (290) of armed defenders who had held out during five months of Arab siege, eleven days of Arab Legion attack...
...boxes at which two starched G.I.s come to attention; in the street the car is picked up by an escort of white MP jeeps. On the five-minute ride to work, MacArthur passes a sandlot where Japanese kids play baseball, a number of government buildings (some destroyed), the Sakurada Gate of the Imperial Palace, the green algae-covered Imperial moat. 'For the general, the traffic lights are always green...