Word: gate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horses shot out of the starting gate for the 1¼-mile race. The crowd let out a roar as Arcaro whipped Nashua hard: within seconds the big bay horse spurted ahead, close to the rail. As Nashua shot forward, Swaps first veered to the outside, then tried to close. The crowd waited confidently for Swaps to make his move. Twice, coming into the backstretch and approaching the far turn, Jockey Shoemaker tried to move up on the outside; each time Arcaro whacked his mount and pulled away, holding the inside track. Coming down the long (1,531 ft.) homestretch...
Married. Frank Lloyd, 66, two-time Academy Award-winning Hollywood director (for Divine Lady, 1928; and Cavalcade, 1932); and Virginia Kellogg, 47, script writer (Caged); both for the second time; aboard a yacht as it steamed under the Golden Gate Bridge...
There was no need to worry. When the gate opened for the American Derby last week, Swaps broke in front. Jockey Willie Shoemaker allowed him his own, front-running race until they got to the 16th pole. Then Willie stood casually in his stirrups and looked behind. Clifford Mooers's Traffic Judge was closing fast. Willie just flicked his whip; he never hit Swaps once. The California champion reached out and finished a length in front. He had covered the mile-and-three-sixteenths in 1:54 3/5 to crack the track record and tie the American standard...
...prewar days, used to plant time bombs in the British mails to reinforce its demand for the unification of Ireland. Swiftly, they went to work, loading rifles, Sten guns, light machine guns and 200,000 rounds of ammunition into a fleet of cars that rolled in through the main gate, then vanished into the night. Not until three hours later did one of the sentries free himself and send the alarm...
...Havoc. In Wallsend, Australia, Hilton Clifford, 42, fell into a beery sleep during a cops-and-robbers movie, woke up when the villain was bludgeoning the heroine, ran through the town yelling for help, tore up a wooden station house gate to attract police to the scene, was fined ?1 ($2.24), ordered to pay ?10 damages...