Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gaze skyward, to dance and feast in honor of harvest home. Some remembered that in Japanese tradition the moon also symbolizes homesickness. Outside the cream-colored Russian Embassy in Tokyo, 3,000 men & women, mostly elderly farmers, marched slowly back & forth, bowing as they passed the big iron gate. In their hands were small white banners decorated with moons. One banner was inscribed: "Oh moon, tell me where...
...weight, full grown, was 96 lbs. A confirmed invalid, he suffered from coughs, sweats, neuralgia, nausea, diarrhea. He dosed himself with quinine, nitric acid, extract of liverwort. He walked about with a cane, muffled himself in scarves and flannels, later (after an iron gate fell on him) rode in a wheelchair. He never married. Until he died at 71, he had a gnome-like, boyish face-beardless, wrinkled, blotched...
...southward to Hankow and Nanking. The bar across the A was the Lunghai Railroad which meandered from Sian, in China's far west, to Laoyao, a minor port on the coast. For Nationalists and Communists alike, control of this A was a strategic necessity. Through its two-way gate Nationalists could move to conquer and hold Northern China. Communists hoped to pour through it to conquer the Yangtze Valley. But if the A was the key to Peiping and the Yangtze, the keys to the A were Suchow and Kaifeng, where the Lunghai Railroad crossed the north-south lines...
Electric tension gripped Jerusalem. Outside the Jaffa Gate the tension was even greater. A Government "fortress" went up last week in the heart of the New City. The British evicted shopkeepers and business firms along Jaffa Road, stretched tangles of barbed wire from rooftops to the ground and along the road. Sandbagged guard posts manned by grim-faced infantrymen and paratroopers in maroon berets hemmed in the precincts of the British rulers. Tommy gunners covered everyone entering Barclay's Bank to cash a check. The Post Office, Government Lands Office, Overseas Airways office jittered as Jewish extremists carried...
...advertised. He soon had the hotel in the black. When hotel guests began asking questions about astronomy, Childs built a lecture room, bought a twelve-inch telescope, and began giving evening lectures in elementary astronomy. Visitors were soon leaving up to $50,000 a year at his toll gate...