Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long time ago. before people stopped noticing miracles and started saying that they do not happen, a newborn baby was left one summer's night at the gate of a little Franciscan cloister that sat on the top of a high hill in the land of Spain. "It's a baby!' gasped the friar who found the precious package. He conducted a discreet investigation: "It's a boy!" And he ran to show the others what a wonder had come into their quiet lives. Brother Thomas, the cook, a man as simple and round and solid...
After a tasty lunch at the club, Rocko drove across the bridge and on to Storrow Drive, made a U-turn, and found a parking space near the stadium gate. The Harvard band played them to their seats. Sunlight poured down, warming them. The nippy air filled their lungs with clean coolness. Conversation buzzed around them; martial music stirred them; they lent their voices to cheers surging like surf from the sea of happy faces. Awed by it all, they sought each other's eyes...
Grass blazing in the darkness, effigies swinging from the gate, and the Humane Society threatening drastic action against torturers of pigs livened up the Yale campus yesterday in a prelude to today's game against Princeton...
Yale blamed a group of Princeton students for sneaking into the Yale Bowl Thursday night and burning a large black "P" into the field, while one observer reported an effigy of a Princeton student dangling from a New Haven gate...
Even in the last week, Estes, by staff count, shook the hands of 5,595 auto workers in one hour at a Flint, Mich, fac tory gate. By election eve he was so fagged out that in introducing his family to a national TV audience he called the dog by his daughter's name, Diane. Yet at 2:30 a.m. he was winging southward for some unprecedented Election Day campaigning in Miami. "It's absolutely insane," said an aide, "but he just can't stop." Estes started talking to mechanics in an airport hangar, kept...