Word: gate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gate of a Rio hospital one morning last week, a young woman brought a pain-racked old man holding a bloodstained towel to his face. "For the love of God, open up!" she cried. "My father needs a doctor!" The gate stayed shut...
...Buenos Aires, 300 gate-crashers tried to jam into a with-credentials-only press conference held one morning in a hotel. The star attraction: Italy's full-blown Cinemactress Gina (Bread, Love and Dreams) Lollobrigida (TIME, Aug. 16), in the Argentine as an official guest of one of her fans, President Juan PerÓn. Hearing the restive tumult from those barred at the door, Gina melted the newsmen by asking: "Why do they love me so much?" After visiting the presidential mansion, Gina purred: "I realize now why people love PerÓn so much...
...airline gate at Washington's National Airport, two tall and solid-looking men stood chatting volubly in German. At departure time the two shook hands and murmured "auf wiedersehen." Then Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab entered the plane. His companion, State Department Protocol Officer John Farr Simmons, waited at the gate until the plane was aloft; then he turned and hurried back to his desk at the State Department...
...spring practice too often implies a drive at professionalism, which is no problem in any other collegiate sport. It is unfortunate that football coach and player are denied something available to the crew teams, but it is a price that football must pay for its importance, interest, and subsequent gate receipts. When 50,000 people are willing to pay $5.00 a seat to watch a crew race, then it is time to end fall crew practice...
...days of a five-year sentence for perjury (for denying that he had turned secret documents over to the Communists while in the State Department), could scarcely find much consolation in the warden's parting words. When, as ex-Convict 19137, he walks out of Lewisburg's gate two days after Thanksgiving Day, Lawyer Hiss will greet the world as a convicted felon, practically broke, disbarred in all courts, stripped of nearly all ordinary civil rights...