Word: gate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convention was started by Van Hoy's father, H. P. Van Hoy, as a means of raising funds for the school Over the years, half of the gate receipts, which now total $60,000, has gone to the school, while the other half has been divided among the competing bands to pay their travel expenses...
...short passageway between a translucent plastic box and a black box with an electrical grid for a floor, Ungar placed rats one at a time into the light box. As is their nature, the rats scurried into the dark box. They were in for a rude shock. Dropping a gate that prevented them from running back into the tunnel, Ungar sent electric current through the grid floor for five seconds, giving them a painful jolt. When the gate was lifted, the rats usually were only too happy to return to the lighted box. The procedure was repeated five times...
...been dubbed a "NATO accent." Always keeping an eye cocked for"what's American in America," he brings an outsider's enthusiasm to the U.S. scene, putting old landmarks in a new light. "On a cold foggy night," he wrote of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, "the bridge struts wail like the witches in Macbeth...
...toilets, legalization of psychedelic drugs, free food, and a heart transplant for L.B.J. Also advocated: "juvenile exhibitionism"-a favorite hippie habit most recently practiced by at least 50 young men and women from San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, who stripped to the buff in Golden Gate Park before a crowd of ogling onlookers...
Fooling the Experts. The astonishing string had to end some time. And last week, pressing extra hard before the home folks at Rossland, Nancy caught a ski tip on a gate and fell in the sla lom. Even so, she still held a commanding lead in the battle for the World Cup, with 176 points to 150 for Mir and 128 for Goitschel...