Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Texas Sandman broke out of the starting gate like a hobby horse, next to last. Then, for reasons known only to himself, the Sandman awoke. First, he gained ground on the inside, then he tried the outside. Buzfuz was quitting, and the pacesetter, Fighting Frank, did not appear to have much fight left. In the stretch, Texas Sandman took the lead, wobbled a bit toward the rail, but brazened it out to win first place and $45,150. For a six-year-old, that was pretty good: almost 180 times his $250 purchase price as a yearling...
...scene in Variety Girl, a movie about backstage Hollywood, Paramount was reported to be constructing a life-sized sound stage replica of its own studio gate...
With his cut of the gate ($20,000) and six stitches over his left eye, Marcel Cerdan headed back to spend Christmas with his family in Casablanca. He will return next year, for a probable chance at the middleweight title, and some more Yankee dollars...
...Nazi war machine expired, the U.S. heart seemed to soften. In February 1945, the U.S. met with other American republics in Mexico City to open the gate for U.N. Argentina was not invited. The Act of Chapultepec, however, pointed the way back into the fold. Argentina might regain the family bosom if she 1) agreed to a system of collective security in the Western Hemisphere, 2) wiped out Axis commercial influence and deported Axis spies, 3) declared war on the Axis...
Back in the spring of 1945 the Student Council took a poll which opened the gate on the long road to building a memorial to the Harvard dead of World War II The poll, at the time nothing but an abstract expression of student opinion, showed undergraduates almost unanimously in favor of the construction of a Student Activities Center. Last spring the Council moved the results of its poll out of theory into practice and placed itself solidly behind the building of a Center as a war memorial. Shortly after the Crimson and the Alumni Bulletin joined the Council...