Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nevertheless, hours before game time, streams of Muscovites poured toward the stadium. Hundreds of small boys swarmed over or through the high iron fence, as mounted police tried to round them up and chase them out. Throngs funneling through the stadium ramps were so dense that the gate control collapsed. Some people waved tickets. Others just waded in, until 100,000 jammed the stadium, which seats 75,000. They ignored the steady drizzle which iced the rails and benches. When the local boys, the underdog Spartaks, came from behind to win, 3-to-2, in an overtime period, the crowd...
...placing a pig in peril. She put a pig in a pen at the Galloping Hills Horseshow, and blue-blooded jumpers jumped in & out. Soon a humane officer turned up at the Swift mansion-"stormed into the house and was very rude," said Mrs. Swift. He got the gate. "There's no one who loves animals more than I do," cried Mrs. Swift to the press. "I wouldn't hurt that pig for anything-took him home all safe and happy in my station wagon when the show was over...
...swing, learned to play the thing and became accordionist in Whiteman's band. Then in 1943 an auto accident put him in a cast for 18 months, left him with a permanent limp. Last March he rounded up Clarinetist Andy Fitzgerald, Guitarist Jack Hotop and Bass Player Gate Frega, sold them on his basic idea: "Erase the labels from music. Stop thinking about 'jive,' 'swing,' 'sweet' and 'jump.' Just play music...
...Suddenly, admission to college has become recognized as a privilege involving keen competition. . . . For every one of you here there are several others outside the gate. They were close behind you in qualifications for college work. If you think of them as you should, you will be at peace with your conscience only if you make the best use of the special privilege you now enjoy and which was denied to them...
...with 2600 annual tickets sold, prospects look bright for a successful gridiron season from the ticket seller's point of view. The H.A.A. announced yesterday that the Dartmouth game at Hanover, and the Holy Cross and Yale games at Soldiers Feld are certain to be successes at the gate...