Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...governor of Massachusetts, who is always the guest of honor, and until 1866 was ex-officio President of the Board of Overseers, drives out from the State House, accompanied by the Roxbury Horse Guards, a cavalry troop that goes back to Colonial days. Near the Johnston Gate the procession of officers and undergraduates is formed, in the reverse order of classes, and it is a moving sight to watch the procession of younger and younger alumni until we reach the class that is celebrating its triennial. Seniors in their bachelors' gowns (another medieval survival) line up in double ranks...
...last it got too rugged for the Germans. After an hour the prisoners heard frantic cries: "Nicht schiessen." The German machine gunners outside at the gate kept on firing. So did the American attackers But inside the house the German defenders surrendered to their own prisoners, sat down, sweating and white...
...evening soon after the fall of Rome, hobnailed boots clumped into the plush-gold Throne Room at the Papal Palace. Some 200 war correspondents, army PRO's, photographers and gate-crashers crowded the hallowed consistorial chamber. Promptly at 7 p.m. His Holiness opened the most unusual press interview ever granted by a Pope...
...clear afternoon you can see the wide sweep of the Bay, from the Marin hills to the ship-clogged docks of the Embarcadero, watch great grey convoys moving out the Golden Gate. At night city lights gleam far below, the first fighting men have seen in many months...
High on Shasta Dam's vast concrete face last week a big steel gate opened. A mighty wall of water rushed down to the No. 4 penstock, exploded against the huge waiting turbine in the powerhouse below the dam. The tons of steel began to turn, accelerated, then hummed like a tremendous...