Word: gate
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...trip. In Washington, carved into the wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, are the names of 58,226 Americans who died in an unpopular war. Now, in your mind, fly to Belgium, where about the same number of names - 54,896, to be exact - are written on the Menin Gate outside Ypres. But these are not the names of all who died in a whole war; they are not even the names of all who died on a single battlefield. They commemorate the Britons, together with about 13,000 Canadians and Australians, who died at Ypres between 1914 and August...
Ulrich says a less conventional monument that the University could use as a model is the Anne Dudley Bradstreet Gate, located along the North border of Harvard Yard near Canaday, which was dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the integration of women into Harvard’s houses. But Bradstreet had no affiliation with the University and, in the future, Ulrich says, Harvard might better look to name gates after women affiliated with the institution...
...raised enough concerns--he paid for his ticket in cash and had no checked bags--that airport officials questioned him so long that he missed the flight. When he showed up the next day, his appearance--long-haired, disheveled, druggie--seemed almost calculated to draw attention. At the boarding gate, says Annie Joly, a Frenchwoman on the flight, "I was immediately struck by how bizarre he looked." After Reid's arrest, the bare bones of his life as a small-time London crook came out, and he claimed to have made the bomb from a recipe on the Internet...
...Because we were so slow getting out of the gate. I thought I’d give everyone a chance,” Sullivan said. “Nothing was stable. I was just trying to generate energy giving the guys off the bench a shot...
Right out of the gate in the second half, the Crimson found its scoring touch and stabilized its lineup. Harvard opened the second half with a 13-2 run and seemed to finally be breaking away from...