Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a new course this year," Adolph Samborski told the assembly. "You follow the fence until you reach Gate 12, then run along the outside until you reach Gate 18. There'll be someone there to direct you. Then you run across to the track and finish up there." Then Mr. Samborski good-naturedly got out of the way, and the race commenced...
Peter Fury appears in this strange novel as a shade rendered vague by 15 years served in a British prison. His character is as shapeless as the slops they issued him at the prison gate, and his condition as hopeless as the five shillings in his pocket. Slowly, as the Irish say, it is "let on" that Peter was a "dismantled Roman wreck," having studied unsuccessfully for the priesthood; that his father was a seaman, his mother a pious termagant, his brother a "great, rearing, clumsy bucko." Why was Peter in jail? The question involves a real novelist...
...desperate rearguard action, Army hinted reasonably that it would gladly let NASA have the jet propulsion lab and other installations if it could only keep Redstone-and there it would take on any chores NASA assigned. "All we need to do," Medaris argued, "is put up a new wicket gate where they can hand in their orders." Added point: if Army could prevent an ultimate decision by the President until year's end, it would probably get to keep Redstone for good. Under the law creating the civilian agency to control space operations, NASA cannot take over military facilities...
...have been an innocent world that perished in 1914, but on Lady Diana's showing it might be said that true innocents inhabited it. Perfection would never again be waiting at the castle gate...
...Hero. Maverick lay stunned for five minutes, but as the hunters approached, he struggled to his feet. Blindly, he staggered to a metal-plated gate, clawed at it, stuck his nose into a crack, scrambled, scratched, pushed. Then, in utter, bewildered defeat, he slumped to the ground, and was carted...