Word: gate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with his harmonica; suddenly he was ignored by employers who could not stand his noisy political ways, almost broke from prosecuting an inconclusive libel suit against a charge that he was a Communist. But when he finally came back, a four-week engagement at Greenwich Village's Village Gate stretched on to ten. And all of a sudden it was good-money times again...
...Haste. This week, as they have for the past six years, the Israeli Samaritans will journey to join their brethren for Passover on Mount Gerizim. Bearing gifts of clothes, toys and fruit, the 130 men, women and children will cross the border at Jerusalem's Mandelbaum Gate, climb aboard buses for the 70-minute ride to the sacred mountain on which they must remain during the whole seven days of Passover, in accordance with Jordanian security regulations...
Concern for Castro's safety has also caused the Law School Forum, sponsors of tonight's speech, to take unusual security measures. The Forum has refused to sell tickets to non-members of the University, or to anyone at the gate...
...NORTH GATE (255 pp.)-Gwyn Griffin-Holt...
...gate" of the book's title is taken from a Chinese poem in which a lonely man in a watchtower looks out across a barbarous and a desolate land. But it is also the gate at which the sentinels of civilization have always stood guard and always died in the end. The scene of this modern tale of horror is Africa, where the Roman watch fell to the Vandals 1,500 years ago, and where today the British guard is falling to nationalism. Whatever its accuracy as an omen, By the North Gate is one of the year...