Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stationery department office when she heard the bomb explode. Three men were "hanging around" in front of the office, she said, and as soon as everyone had stopped work because of the disturbance in front of the store, one of them rushed through the office to the cashiers' gate...
...what Christmas Week was like this year, I toured the holy places. I started at Jerusalem's Old City. Unlike old-time pilgrims, I needed an armed escort of British police. We entered at Jaffa Gate, headed down through the ancient Jewish quarter, where for ten days the Arabs had besieged some 3,500 Jews. Sniping still goes on day & night...
...Massie case was an unprecedented flare-up in Hawaiian race relations. But its melodramatic aspects awakened the first general interest that the people of the mainland U.S. had ever shown in their neglected Pacific paradise, 2,400 miles west of San Francisco's Golden Gate. The luridly revealed racial complexities of the territory became the subject of scandalized interest on the mainland, and touched off a deep national uneasiness. In the hysteria, fanned by U.S. editors playing up a gaudy story, and by the U.S. Navy, which saw its gold-buttoned dignity assailed, some U.S. newspapers even tacitly condoned...
Professional Pride. In Berlin, Railroad Gatekeeper Walter Lanik failed to close his gate for a train, remorsefully waited for the next one, jumped under...
...made a resolution to stop treasuring each month until June, for then he'd be prepared to face the outside. And he certainly wanted to-in June. Until then there was Christmas and asking and the spring months, Mission accomplished, thought Vag, standing at the Thayer Gate, so he turned around and started to walk back to the Houses...