Word: gate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About 3 a.m. last Dec. 19, Communist soldiers knocked at the hospital gate and claimed to have a sick man who needed attention. When the gate opened, they rushed into the grounds, surrounded Dr. Wallace's house, awakened him and searched his quarters. They "found" a pistol under his mattress. Dr. Wallace said he had never had a gun; his servant swore that it had not been in the room before the Communists came. But the Reds took him away to prison in his pajamas, tried to get him to sign a confession. They called a "denunciation meeting...
...arrivals are herded into a former British army camp renamed Shaar Aliyah (Gate of Immigration), for two weeks or so of medical isolation. The heterogeneous immigrants stroll aimlessly: a gangling youth in a heavy blue ski suit that was fine for the weather he knew in Rumania will gawk at shriveled, turbaned old men clad in the pajama suits of North African Arabs; chattering old ladies from Hungary, clutching fur scarves, look incredulously on squatting North African women in long cotton shifts...
...Bingham always felt that athletic problems should be viewed as problems in education, that a college's athletic program was part of its educational program. To him, sports existed not for gate receipts, but to aid in the education of the student. Thus it was that Mr. Bingham established Harvard's vast intra-mural program, with its emphasis on "athletics...
Much of the vituperation that Mr. Bingham had heaped on him during his years as athletic director was because of this belief in amateurism. Alumni, subway and genuine, students, columnists, and colleges choosing the path of professionalism, all were blinded by football won and lost records and football gate receipts. Their insights into the role of college athletics went no further than the crowds in the stadiums Saturdays and the spectacle on the gridirons below. Mr. Bingham's insights went deeper, and he struggled, often almost alone, to preserve college athletics for the college student. The price he paid...
...Indiana county poor farm swarming with moronic Peeping Toms, addlebrained paupers and unmarried mothers might not be the cheeriest place to spend Christmas, but Superintendent Link Conboy and his family had to make the best of it. And the best of it, as the superintendent saw it, was daughter Gate's romance with the young insurance salesman who had come down from Indianapolis to spend the holidays with the Conboy family. Wife Lib made popcorn balls, daughter Cate decked out the dining room with red-and-green streamers and piled pine cones and cedar boughs in the middle...