Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago of India." In the midst of the speech, two youths tried to tear down the national flag. The crowd, responding to Nehru's lecture, turned on the youths, beat them severely before police intervened. As the meeting adjourned, a man who had been standing at a gate through which Nehru was scheduled to pass drew his revolver too soon, fired three wild shots at police...
...young black bull, whose whole world had been the unpeopled, machine-less range, the two jeeps were a startling sight. When the jeeps came through the gate, the bull glared suspiciously and trotted off across the wide pasture of Mexico's La Punta, the world's biggest ranch for raising toros bravos (brave bulls). The jeeps bounced after him in hot pursuit. They were out on a tienta, a test of fighting quality (with modern trimmings), on which all things at La Punta depend...
This time, wearing, as usual, an outrageous little hat, she made it brief-just a few apologies (for a gate that was not open, for the amplifiers and the unfinished stage), and a few promises, most of which by week's end had been kept. To some, Minnie's speech was the biggest letdown of the evening. Complained the astonished Daily News: "She made sense...
...Paris, Princess Margaret, fun-loving, 18-year-old younger daughter of Britain's King George VI, did the galleries, appeared circumspectly at a nightclub, danced until 2:30 a.m. at an embassy ball, and slipped through a garden gate to escape a carload of photographers determined to pursue her on a drive into the country. Frenchmen said of her: "Qu'elle est belle!" Reporters noted with approval that in nine public appearances she had worn nine different costumes. At the airport last week, when it was all over, Margaret murmured politely to her hosts...
...cold wind whipped through the marble columns of the white Arlington amphitheater, riffling the rows of flags. At 11 o'clock a can non thudded out the first salvo of the slow, rolling 19-gun salute and a flag-draped caisson moved slowly up from the Arlington gate, bearing the first U.S. Secretary of Defense to a sailor's grave...