Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moravian Gate. President Bierut discussed two territorial divisions-East Prussia and the former Czech industrial district of Teschen-in detail. Poland and Russia's common frontier in East Prussia, he said, had not yet been worked out. But since there were many Lithuanians living around Königsberg, he presumed that that section of East Prussia would be incorporated in the Lithuanian Soviet Republic. Bierut "hoped and believed" that the Teschen question could be settled amicably with the Czech Government. In any case, Teschen would remain Polish...
...night's hush, tumbled to the earth. The crump of grenades mingled with ripping bursts from automatic weapons. Japs screamed orders, fell before the headlong rush of dimly seen figures brandishing knives and pistols. Unmistakably American voices yelled: "This is a prison break-make for the main gate! These are Yanks...
March of the Half-Dead. Some of the prisoners ran on bare, swollen feet out through the main gate toward the hill which the raiders pointed out to them. Some of them in hysteria tried to embrace and kiss their rescuers. Some of them, bedridden, found themselves hoisted pickaback by sweating soldiers...
Antibapfist. In San Juan Capistrano, Calif., the Coastline Dispatch ran an advertisement: "Notice. Positively no more baptizing in my pasture. Twice here in the last two months my gate has been left open by Christian people and before I chase my heifers all over the country again, all sinners can go to hell...
...Kisalföld, the triangular "Little Plain" of western Hungary, with Vienna, in Austria, as its apex. By this week the Russians had won a series of battles for the Kisalföld's approaches, stood upon it on both sides of the Danube. Vienna, the inner gate to Germany's back door, was now the German worry...