Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the two fighters climbed into the Garden ring last week, Armstrong's comeback was already a success. Madison Square Garden was jammed and the gate was nearly $105,000, more than Armstrong ever drew there when he was a triple champion. Dusky Jack, obviously no calf-eyed pupil, pounced upon him with trip-hammer lefts and jolting right uppercuts. Armstrong just put his head down and bored in, soon made Jack back away, in the ninth and tenth rounds kept him well backed against the ropes...
...Prewar U.S. precedent: In January 1930, a crowd of 4,000, trying to squeeze into 1,400 seats at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History for a showin of a film on Einstein's relativity theory, pushed down an iron gate, shoved a heavy door off its hinges...
...notes tell me that I am reporting only what I saw or verified; yet even to me it seems unreal: dogs eating human bodies by the roads, peasants seeking dead human flesh under the cover of darkness, endless deserted villages, beggars swarming at every city gate, babies abandoned to cry and die on every highway. Nothing can transmit the horror of the entire great famine in Honan Province, or the irony of the green spring wheat with a promise of a bumper crop which is not ripe for harvesting for two more months. Most terrible of all is the knowledge...
...only unneighborly conduct. Democracy's rebirth will be hard, most ungodly hard. But enslavement would be harder. We have no other alternative. We must conquer by heroic self-denial or be conquered by ruthless force. World democracy, rich and proud and pharisaical, is the camel before the gate of the needle's eye. He must go through. He must bend low, even to the dust. He must slip off his load and his proud trappings of purse and power. To be saved for 'a new Heaven and a new Earth' the diverse people of democratic civilization...
When they came down, they shook the earth and the walls trembled. Along Unter den Linden fountains of flame exploded. The Hedwigsdom, Berlin's Roman Catholic cathedral, collapsed. Up near the Brandenburg Gate and along the Wilhelmstrasse incendiaries sprinkled the governmental quarter, where the Foreign Office, the Reich President's palace and Hitler's huge Chancellery stand in a row. This was Berlin's heart and the administrative center of the Third Reich. Here the attackers' blockbuster bombs created havoc, and there were many Berliners who never saw daylight again...