Word: gate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the bomb went off in East Beirut, workmen were preparing to install a steel gate near the dragon's teeth that would strengthen security by giving guards a little more time in which to deal with a possible emergency. The white-painted gate was still lying on the sidewalk, waiting to be put into place, and the cement in which the gateposts were set was still wet. In the aftermath of the tragedy, a Lebanese guard said that he thought the dragon's teeth had been placed too far apart to force traffic to a crawl. Countering...
...time to close the gate. Ten years is a long time for any political fashion, and it is exactly ten years since the resignation of Richard Nixon. In that decade we have had Watergate, Koreagate, Lancegate, Billygate and now Ferrarogate, with Meesegate and Debategate on temporary hold. The chronology yields a list in roughly descending order of importance. We have come a long way. From a President resigning for, among other things, organizing a squad of "plumbers" specializing in break-ins, to a vice-presidential candidate arraigned before the bar of the media to answer questions, among others, about...
...consisted of 107 runners. What had happened to the rest of the contestants? Had they all dropped out, or were a number of them milling around outside the tunnel on Vermont Avenue trying to get in? Or even more poignant-were these exhausted men simply trying to persuade a gate attendant to let them down into the infield so they could watch the festivities with their fellow athletes? The gate attendant would be firm. "Got to have a ticket...
...Flemish origins may have had more than a casual meaning to him, since the main influence on his work was Rubens. Nothing is known about his political views, family affections or sexual life. He had no fixed address; yet once he reached Paris, he rarely left its gate. His only recorded trip outside France was to England, where he went in the hope of a cure for the tuberculosis that killed him, not yet 37 years...
...Bostonians may or may not be destined for Freshman Week glory aside Paper Chase, Love Story, and other on-location classics. But it is worth seeing, and Yard cognoscenti will get a knowing chuckle from seeing Johnston Gate's ever-obnoxious gingerbread guard-booth look out of place in yet another century...