Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fire fighters stood in the intense cold outside the looked Eliot courtyard gate, blocking Memorial Drive traffic for 15 minutes before they learned that the one alarm fire had been extinguished. The blaze did no damage, and no one knew how it began...
Last week Edwin Midgley, still in comfortable financial circumstances, drove up to the mine gate in his limousine and asked for his old job. Why? Said Miner Midgley: "I got bored...
Doodles. Immediately, uncomplimentary legends began to cluster about Attlee's retiring and "colorless" personality. Such cracks as "An empty limousine drew up at the gate and Attlee stepped out" or "This would never have happened if good old Attlee had been alive" became standard cocktail-party fodder. Attlee's shyness is not that of an insecure or a frightened man. He wants to be alone because he likes it that way. In committee meetings, at parties or in the House of Commons, he seems to have the gift of becoming invisible. As the debate in the House grows...
Early in the evening 50 West Berlin police drove up to the Direktion, charged in, took the Soviet guards by surprise, ousted some railway workers (see cut), and posted McNulty's orange placard by the gate. The Soviet-German press blared headlines about "illegal confiscation...
Visibility was so poor that Citation and his three rivals could barely be seen across the mist-shrouded infield. Trainer Jones, a thickset little man with a perpetually worried look, had a twinge of conscience as the field entered the starting gate: "It's a little like putting Joe DiMaggio back in the game in midseason and letting him bat against good, seasoned pitchers. He might strike out." Jimmy had another bad moment when Citation broke slowly and wallowed down the backstretch eating mud from other horses' heels...