Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Wasserman took seventh in the slalom, the only notable place secured by the team among the fields of over forty competing in each event. A spill at the last gate of his second run knocked Gerry Genn out of a probable fourth place in this event...
...While his wife and a motion-picture cameraman watched, Hollywood Stunt Man Alfred ("Dusty") Rhodes jumped off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge with three small parachutes attached to his back. He plummeted down 256 feet, disappeared in a burst of foam, surfaced, and bobbed quietly off on the tide-dead...
Through the first four gates she took a long chance - refusing to slow up for icy spots. She flew down the slope, zigzagging between the red and yellow flags that mark the gates, skidded once and almost missed a gate. Her first run was clocked in 59.7 seconds ; the second time, she cut two seconds off that. Thanks to Gretchen Fraser, the U.S. had won its first Olympic ski race in history. The same day, boyish Dick Button, 1 8, of Englewood, N.J., jumped and spun through his figure-skating routine to give the U.S. its second triumph...
...Oberhausen, in Germany's Ruhr, a worker hurried toward the gate of a steel mill with a bag of black bread sandwiches under...
...screwed up his courage, walked up to the city desk, and asked if he could please go see the Rose Bowl game. City Editor John MacLellan surprised him. Instead of turning him down, the boss proposed a bet: if Breslin wanted to hitchhike out to Pasadena and crash the gate, all on $50 of his own, he could go ahead. If he made it, the Times would pay him back...