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Word: gate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then violence broke out. In South St. Paul there were bloody clashes as non-strikers ran the gauntlet of massed pickets. About 300 pickets had formed a wall, eight deep, near the Swift & Co. plant's main gate. Sheriff Norman Dieter and a force of 21 cops moved up to read the law: a court order had set a limit of 18 pickets. When no one moved, the sheriff rammed his force against the wall. A few minutes later the bloody, battered cops retreated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Lost Cause | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...look cheerful, listened somewhat gloomily. There were breaks in the official routine. One night Elizabeth and Philip danced until dawn in a Parisian boite. One afternoon, they drove to Versailles and (while careful cops hid behind hedges) walked along a lovers' lane in the gardens. Through the gate, a woman called: "Be happy and have many children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Princess Zezette | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...entering a temple within ten days after the birth of his child, or if he has had a haircut and goes in before taking a bath. Until recently, when a civil law eased the ban, Untouchables could pollute a temple just by blundering beyond the main gate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Conservative | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...fortnight ago, China's National Assembly overwhelmingly elected Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek President of China. Then they turned to the election of a Vice President. At first, everything was smooth as cream. At the Dragon Gate restaurant, delegates sipped tea with Candidate Sun Fo, whose father was Sun Yatsen, hero of the revolution, and who was second only to the Gimo in Kuomintang prestige. Four other aspirants were equally polite and formal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Dark Horse from Kwangsi | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...lived there, many had fled to safety even before the attack started. As the panicky evacuation began during the Jewish assault, the remaining thousands gathered what few belongings they could carry. Lashed on by the mortar barrage, more than a thousand men, women & children hammered at the No. 3 gate of the British-controlled port area to seek safety. Royal Marine guards finally let them on to the docks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: On the Eve? | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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