Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most significant session was on Asia, Stanford's Wilbur presiding. Looking past the Golden Gate toward the once-"mysterious" East, the nation's educators decided that it is "an alarmingly neglected area in American schools and colleges...
...certainly not the best of a particular band or player's work. Almost every big band of today that ever recorded a riff is mentioned, and there are some reflections on the quality of big-band arrangements. You'll find even the Alec Wilder Octet and the Golden Gate Quartet, not usually welcomed into the jazz household, but the line had to be drawn somewhere, and the door slammed before Hazel Scott and Carmen Cavallaro...
...Batavia, doves cluster at dusk on the crocodile cages, supple natives bathe in the filthy canals ("They are a very clean people, but they like their water dirty"). An ancient cannon, sacred but now annoyingly useless, stands at Batavia's Amsterdam Gate. The native women pray to it for fertility and have so many babies that Java has 817 people per square mile. According to native superstition, the cannon has a wife at Bantam on the western end of the island. When the two meet, Dutch rule in Java will...
From hillsides bordering the harbor, San Franciscans saw the convoy slide under Golden Gate Bridge, the ships' black and grey daubed sides barely distinguishable from fog and water. Word spread quickly. Down to the docks, as close as armed guards would let them approach, rushed hundreds of eager, worried men and women: parents whose sons had been in the battle of Pearl Harbor, relatives of families left stranded in Hawaii when the attack came. They stood in the chill drizzle, waiting...
...popular name in India) five previous, more rigorous prison terms. They knew that his opinions had not changed, that his mischief value had increased with each term he served. Cheered and garlanded with flowers when he was released from prison last week, Nehru, almost at the jail's gate, repeated that he considers India's struggle to be against the British and not against the Axis...