Word: gate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First news of the successful missile shot was flashed over Radio Peking in the dead of night. As if by Maoist magic, the Gate of Heavenly Peace was instantly floodlit, and a People's Daily "extra" was on the streets within the hour. Squads of People's Liberation Army soldiers goose-stepped through Peking, each man waving a tiny Red flag...
...After all, Gibraltarians, almost to a man, want to remain under British rule. As if to underline this fact, hundreds of the Rock's residents gathered near the border last week to sing God Save the Queen and intone the Beatle ditty called "The Yellow Submarine" as the gate swung closed...
...Vaux, is head of the international committee translating the scrolls into modern languages. De Vaux also headed the 36 scholars who prepared the Bible de Jérusalem, the first translation to take advantage of the scrolls' discoveries, including an early script of Isaiah. Located near the Damascus Gate, on the spot where Christianity's first martyr, St. Stephen, was stoned to death, L'Ecole Biblique currently has 42 postgraduate scriptural students enrolled. Most of them are Catholic priests, but Protestants are always welcome to use its facilities. The scholars of L'Ecole Biblique are proud...
...than they would have been roaming the streets. Once, on a trip to Storybook land Park, Virginia, with a group of toddlers, I met a group of about forty elementary-school-aged children from the Step-Up program with their teachers. Their chartered bus had deposited them at the gate to the park and left promising to return two hours later. None of the teachers, it seems, had expected an admission fee and no one had any money. So here they were, expected to stand for two hours in the hot sun waiting for the bus, while the children peered...
...clerk punches in the passenger's monthly schedule, the machine calculates the price and issues a magnetic card. On each trip, the commuter slips the card into a turnstile receiver that automatically subtracts one ride from the total and flashes the number of rides remaining, then opens the gate. In a few years, clerks will be eliminated; the commuter will punch his own order on a console and pay the machine...