Word: gate
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...justice, but also Pamela Pitzer Willeford, the ambassador to Switzerland. Tobin died in October, so his wife Anne Legendre Armstrong, a former ambassador to Britain and a longtime Cheney friend, played host. For all that, Armstrong Ranch is countrified rather than ostentatious. At the entrance is a utilitarian "bumper" gate, so named because you nudge it open with your vehicle. Guests usually stay in wooden ranch dwellings near the main house, which are furnished with antiques but few frills...
...PETERS OUT BODE MILLER wasn't talking again, which is a record of sorts for a guy who has a hard time stopping his gums from flapping. Of course, it would have been difficult to speak following last Saturday's super-G, after he almost swallowed a flag gate that took him out of the race. That made Miller 0 for 3 in the skiing speed events of the Games' first week. Coming out of a tight turn, Miller collided face first with a double gate and veered wildly off course, flying down on his right ski before regaining control...
...spirit of my favorite Yard gate, last term I enrolled in one of the most reading-intensive courses in the Catalog: an intense seminar, the Foundation Texts of the West. Nevertheless, looking back on it, perhaps the best inspiration came not from the passionate professor, the Aeneid, or Krishna’s immortal lines in the Gita. It came from Sally...
...Sunday morning, the deputy was greeted at the ranch?s main gate by the Secret Service and Border Patrol, who searched him and then accompanied him a mile down the road to the main house. The Vice President, says San Miguel, shook his hand and promised to cooperate as they sat down to talk. Cheney, he says in the report, confirmed that he was part of a three-car hunting party consisting of himself, Harry Whittington, Ambassador Willeford, the two Armstrong women, and a three-man hunt team...
...Corpus Christi Caller-Times newspaper he was barbecuing with his family when he was reached. Then, about 10 minutes later, a Secret Service agent called the sheriff at home to officially notify them of the accident and the involvement of Cheney. Kirk, meanwhile, had been rebuffed at the Armstrong gate by a Border Patrol agent who knew nothing about the accident. Salinas says in his report he decided not to go immediately to the ranch after talking to Constable Ramiro Medellin Jr., the former county sheriff. It?s not clear if he was related to the Medellins on the hunt...