Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yellowstone's west gate, all the Deweys smiled broadly, signed autographs, paid their bus fare ($34.50 apiece) and started off for Old Faithful. Mrs. Dewey, recovering from a violent case of poison oak she had picked up in her home town of Sapulpa, Okla., seemed to be showing some strain. They had their picture taken beside the Jet Geyser, were disappointed by the poor catches being made by stream fishermen, but cheered up when they saw a bear amble out of a stand of dead spruce. Everybody stayed in the bus. The Governor had been warned that the bears...
...labor news was serious. Melody, the Washington, D.C. mockingbird who for years has shown up to sit on a lamppost and chirp with the National Symphony Orchestra at Washington's Water Gate concerts, was at it again. Melody, says the Symphony's manager, prefers Mozart and Schubert, but last week he gave a notable and unadvertised rendition of the bird part in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. "He did not strike a single false note," said Washington Evening Star Critic Alice Eversman. "If he could only read the scores-" sighed one of the musicians. But trouble...
...second, playing it at arm's length, then tried to kill it too soon. The crowd showered the ring with cushions and bottles, shouting "Fuera! Fuera!" (Get out!), and when the fight was over Pepin Martin had to dodge more cushions as he tried to sneak through the gate...
Through the slush outside I trudged to the far side of the library. I was again met with suspicion, but again the guardian of the gate became my champion. It was a man this time-and he, too, began phoning people...
...Dudley Gate likewise is to be a victim of the new library, and is now in the process of demolition to make way for re-routing the network of paths between the Yard and the Union. The entire process of demolition and building will take an estimated 16 months, with the fall of 1948 called for as completion time...