Word: gate
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...second-round match the previous weekend, the Irish (22-0-1)--slightly rusty after receiving an opening-round bye--stumbled out of the gate against No. 25 Michigan. Notre Dame fell behind 1-0 in the first half and required a late-game surge to rally...
...inhabitants were sized up, their fashions noted, the drinks and food assessed and the influence peddlers who had migrated with the presidency from Philadelphia whispered their enticements. The elements of the democratic struggle were all in place at the start--political officeholders, special interests and the people at the gate...
...militant Islamic group Hamas. Some of the undercover soldiers get only three weeks of Arabic training before they're sent into dangerous situations. But when they succeed, the undercover squads are dramatically effective. In the second week of the current violence, rioters pelted police with stones at Jerusalem's Gate of the Tribes, which leads to the Temple Mount, after Friday prayers. A moustarabine unit of 10 officers, their faces shrouded by kaffiyehs, joined in the rioting with cries of "Allahu akbar!" (God is most great). At a signal, they threw percussion grenades and nabbed the leaders of the riot...
...music and accompanied himself on the guitar, Jefferson was the first male blues superstar, and enjoyed a highly successful recording career whose influence was still being felt 1961, when Bob Dylan recorded "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" on his debut album. Being the first out of the gate may have accounted for some of Jefferson's success; his songs and their variations became part of the blues canon, but how much of it was Jefferson and how much was part of the tradition he came from is impossible to establish. What is clear is that in his time...
...Stylish fashions for large women b) The 10th anniversary of German unification c) Eating the Brandenburg Gate and living to tell the tale d) Cher's yard sale...