Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pyre. The impregnated sawdust blazed like napalm, clinging to raw flesh, burning and spreading. The crowd, roaring with fear and pain, ran from side to side in the narrow schoolyard. But there was no escape: three of the walls were 10 feet high; the only exit was a narrow gate. It was over in 20 minutes: 33 died, hundreds more were badly burned...
Attendance figures are high. Record gate so far this year: 93,500, at the Los Angeles Coliseum, where the Rams tied the Forty-Niners, 24-24. Even less interesting games usually outdraw college football. Despite its brief season, which ends with an interdivision playoff in December, pro football is one of America's top-ranking spectator sports. The rough excitement of big men throwing their weight around with skillful violence more than matches amateur Saturday afternoons larded with college spirit. Players and fans have another advantage over the old college crowd: there is only one inter-conference playoff...
...notice would seem elementary, unworthy of the students. Evidently, though it is elementary, the message is not unworthy but badly needed. A student can throw the beer can from his pocket as easily as from a carton if he is so moved. Checking all bulky liquids at the gate might restrain a few; self restraint must take care of the rest...
...Samurai, which won a prize at this year's Venice Festival, early in 1955 as "a Japanese western" (33,000 extras, 2,300 horses). Next month Daiei (Great Pictures), which produced both Rashomon and Ugetsu, will release (through Sam Goldwyn) its latest sword swinger: Jigokumon (Hell's Gate), which won the Grand Prix at Cannes this year and stars Machiko Kyo, the leading lady of Rashomon and Ugetsu, and Japan's favorite male actor, Kazuo Hasegawa...
...fair grounds one day I parked next to the gate. When I returned, the ticket taker told me he had to abandon his post to keep people from crawling all over "your beautiful car." In fact, so many people fondled the car I figure I'll be able to sell it to Intelligence -the fingerprints of half the Communists in East Germany must...