Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foggy rain blanketed San Francisco harbor as a big U.S. transport moved under the Golden Gate Bridge. But for most of the ship's 2,000 jampacked passengers, it was as if the sun were shining: they were homecoming veterans of Guadalcanal, New Guinea and many a naval battle. For some 90 young women, however, it was a fearsome moment. They were the Australian wives and sweethearts of U.S. G.I. Joes, 6,000 miles away from their Down Under homes-and about to meet their in-laws...
...Cover) Off the wet rocks where the seals bark and the tides rip, a rendezvous with a new land this week awaited a big grey ship, a plain man in an austere suit, and a motherly woman with friendly eyes. Under the high, tense arc of Golden Gate Bridge, John Curtin, Labor Leader and Prime Minister of Australia, and his wife Elsie would be getting their first view of the U.S. where it looks the most like home. It had been late summer three weeks ago as their ship passed under Sydney's great bridge and between...
Leila Drew rang the gate bell of the modernistic house at No. 1770 Calle Tronador. Inside, she passed two babies playing at a yard man's knee. She asked to see Señora Diligenti. The Señora was nervous and reluctant, but after a woman-to-woman sales talk Mrs. Drew got a look at the other three babies, in neat yellow cribs in a sunny downstairs nursery. She even had her hands on a picture of all five, when forceful Papa Diligenti (whose name means just what it looks like) came in and took it away...
...This is the island where Marine anti-aircraft gunners have hammered up a signpost labeled 'Tokyo,' and painted another that reads 'Golden Gate in '48, breadline...
After U.S. doughboys had captured one house, four Germans stalked in through the front gate, throwing grenades and rattling machine-pistol fire through the open door. Two Americans were hit; one German was killed as the attackers scuttled back around the corner...