Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grew nearer, the crowd grew larger and more disorganized. While the state troopers struggled bravely to keep the thousands away from the air strip, party workers urged them on. The police held their own for a moment, arm to arm. Then the trooper who was holding closed the main gate let out a groan and the Democratic tide poured through, while a party worker shrieked "Keep back...
...that Suez pilotage is one of the easiest in the world. Any master mariner worthy of his salt, if properly briefed by a simple memorandum on the procedure and signaling, should be able to take his ship through. I have steered ships through Suez, and compared to, say, Hell Gate, Suez is a picnic...
Villanova's director of athletics, Ambrose F. Dudley, proposed Saturday that each college donate an equal proportion of one game's gate receipts to the Olympic Fund...
...Berliners, no statue was more beloved than the great copper-plated goddess of victory driving her four 12-ft. horses proudly atop the 69-ft.-tall Brandenburg Gate. Completed in 1794, the Quadriga of Victory was the most famous work of a minor Prussian court sculptor, Johann Gottfried Schadow. But it caught the admiring eye of Napoleon as he rode in triumph through the gate in 1806, and the conqueror ordered it carted off to Paris. Brought back again by the Prussians in 1815 (when it acquired an iron cross surrounded by an oak leaf topped by an eagle...
Last week a cast of the body of one who fled too late was being examined by Italian archaeologists at its resting place outside the Southern Gate of the city. It was the first figure of an eruption victim uncovered outside Pompeii's walls...