Word: gate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tightly rolled leather that it must be a text from Deuteronomy. The bargaining went on for three sessions, and the price slowly descended to about $5,000. Then Cross and Saad hurried into the British Bank of the Middle East, just outside Jerusalem's ancient Damascus Gate, stepped nervously out again into the teeming, clanking tangle of Arabs and animals in Jericho Road with $5,000 in Jordanian pounds, and hurried back for the final transaction...
...automakers' drive to cut back. Said a vice president of a major steel company: "Labor fails to understand the fact that the more expensive labor gets, the more incentive there is to eliminate it. It costs us $25 a day for every steelworker that walks through the gate. Naturally, there is a great incentive to eliminate that cost...
...Binding. In Manhattan, a delivery truck of Barnes & Noble, Inc., publishers of school and college textbooks, has the word PASS painted in large letters on the left side of its tail gate, the word FLUNK on the right...
...mark for the first time, spiced up its shows through the 12-week season with such stars as Bob Hope (in Roberta) and Andy Devine (in Show Boat), and, despite four rained-out performances, pulled a record 650,000 customers. It was a big enough gate to win the battle against night baseball, TV and home air conditioning, no small matter in the humid Missouri summer...
...three "in one frame of moral reference is an art man has had a long fight to learn, and must still steadily fight to preserve." However difficult the balance may be, the new freedom that modern methods of contraception brings to "sexuality in marriage in our time is ... a gate to a new depth and joy in personal relationships between husband and wife. At a time when so much in our culture tends to depersonalize life-to erode and dissolve the old clear outlines of human personality -Christians may well give thanks for the chance given us to establish...