Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco society women sewed costumes, donated furniture for props, decorated San Francisco's Civic Auditorium with tree prunings from Golden Gate Park. Merola ended the season with a nervous breakdown...
Roger Dearborn Lapham, roly-poly mayor of San Francisco, raced his sedan through the city and across Golden Gate Park toward the University of California Hospital; in the back seat was his expectant daughter, Mrs. Ernst Ophuls, comforted by Mrs. Lapham. He got to the hospital's emergency exit in jig-time, only to find it locked, had to sprint up a flight of stairs to get the gate opened, then went off in search of hospital attendants. The stork won the race: when His Honor returned to the car, he found he was a grandfather for the tenth...
...Philadelphia the crowd was bigger, standing five deep at the station gate, waving small American flags. Dewey went straight to a press conference at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, riding in an open car at the head of a 25-car motorcade. Going down Broad Street, there was a brief shower of ticker tape, no big, organized confetti cascade. In the afternoon, Dewey paid the necessary visit to Independence Hall, required of all political candidates...
...British and U.S. specialists (notably in demolition, radio, and intelligence), slashed gaps in railroad lines along which the Germans might try to retreat. The little people of the hills, ground down by the Herrenvolk, were rising in arms. And already the Russian armies were knocking at the Iron Gate to join them...
...Iron Gate, where the Danube flows between 200-foot piles of sandstone, some of Tito's men battled to join Red armymen who had come from the Ukraine, through Bessarabia, through the Galati Gap, through the heart of Rumania at breakneck pace. To the east, General Feodor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukraine Army was mopping up Nazi stragglers on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast. To the north, General Rodion Malinovsky was stabbing through the Transylvanian Alps to the great plain of Hungary...