Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eagerness to accept Simon's proposal, the University neglected to ask for a share of the gate receipts and settled for mere expenses. "But we have not the slightest doubt that the trip will bring forth good fruits," the Alumni Bulletin prophesied smugly. "Whatever else may be said of intercollegiate athletic contests, they turn the hearts of the graduates to their Alma Mater...
...twice over, he traded the suit of lights for blue jeans and a checkered shirt on his 6,000-acre New Castilian estate, with its 20-room, tower-topped house, marble statue of himself, and an antique bed for a restless bullfighter-16 ft. by 7 ft. Over the gate he posted his new motto: "Do nothing all day-and rest afterward." He romanced Ava Gardner, hobnobbed with Ernest Hemingway, flirted in Hollywood and Las Vegas. Last spring he married luscious Lucia Bose, Miss Italy...
Just before entertaining friends and relatives at luncheon in their Hyde Park Gate town house in London, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill, aglow with good spirits, stepped outside briefly to greet sundry well-wishers. "Wave, dear!" said Lady Churchill. In happy compliance, Churchill flashed his famous V-sign to signify his victory that day over 81 momentous years. All week long, post office trucks had brought a mountain of greetings and gifts to Sir Winston. A special messenger, U.S. Ambassador Winthrop W. Aldrich, had personally delivered a birthday present from Dwight Eisenhower: a three-inch gold medallion, struck...
Samurai (Homel; Fine Arts Films] rivets the eye with its swift alternations of animal ferocity and morning calm. Like the prizewinning Gate of Hell (TIME, Dec. 13), this new Japanese film begins with a disordered 17th century battle piece: a flood of lance-waving horsemen surge across a meadow; agile warriors skip and pirouette in a whirling of two-handed blades; the defeated topple, with blood bursting between their clenched teeth. The struggle ends in far-off shouting as mists steal down from the mountains to draw a pale blanket over the slain...
...Slowly, gate receipts went up. Halas was always ready to help please the customers. His teams opened up the game by revising the "T" formation and adding a man-in-motion. Then George jazzed things some more by engineering a couple of rule changes: goal posts were moved from back of the end zone to the goal line, forward passes were made legal from any point behind the line of scrimmage. It was easy enough to rewrite the rule book: George, among other things, was chairman of the rules committee...