Word: gate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grandson, 15-year-old Emir Hussein, the King went up the steps to the entrance of the nearby Aqsa Mosque, slipped off his shoes, prepared to join 4,000 other Moslems at prayer. At that point a young man in Western clothes stepped from behind an iron grille gate. Within a few paces of the unsuspecting monarch he whipped out an American-made automatic, fired five bullets into Abdullah's face and chest...
...games started in Dallas at the N.C.A.A.'s annual January meeting, when the organization's directors decided that Something Must Be Done about football gate receipts, which pay the way of virtually every collegiate athletic association in the country. A committee was formed, chaired by Tom Hamilton of Pitt, to study the real and present danger of television...
...truth. They must not neglect that sword of the spirit which is the Word of God." Evangelicals, in their turn, "must recognize the need for due order and authority within the Church. They must recapture the reality of the supernatural in the sacraments . . . With the common enemy at the gate, how criminal that the garrison should be divided by labels which in reality are . . . but obverse and reverse of the one saving truth...
Peace, if it comes, will find Korea's cities dead. In Seoul the gutted, white-domed capitol of the Republic of Korea stands like a skeleton among the city's ruins. Suwon's huge, half-destroyed gate, once a monument to Korea's kings, guards only rubble now. Fifty cities and towns in South Korea have been destroyed...
...program notes read like a travel brochure: "Let us walk through Mozart's garden . . . We enter by an unassuming little gate: the Symphony in D [K.84] of the 14-year-old Mozart." The guide on this all-Mozart stroll last week was Benjamin Britten, 37, one of Britain's most highly rated composers (Peter Grimes). But the Holland Festival audience in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw was in for a grievous disappointment: not only did Benjy stray off the path; he tromped on the flowers...