Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Attlee & Co. were graciously guided along Peking's streets, past glowering portraits of Mao Tse-tung, Malenkov. Stalin and Molotov, through the famed Gate of Heavenly Peace into the old Forbidden City. They visited a model jail, well stocked with some 3,600 political prisoners, where they were told by a jailer that corporal punishment was forbidden, and "It is not permitted even to scold a prisoner...
...Grey Ghost had come back. Last week, at Saratoga Springs. Native Dancer, one of the finest thoroughbreds ever to run on an American track, went to the starting gate (in a betless race) for the first time since May and romped home a winner. The champ seemed fit and fully recovered from the bruised foot that forced him into temporary retirement (TIME, June...
...modest suggestion: he thought he had earned a crack at Rocky Marciano and a heavyweight purse. In the back room of boxing, the smart-money boys disagreed. Archie, they argued, like most stylists, was too clean and clever a fighter to make for drama and draw a big gate. But he could hit the road again and take on Joey Maxim, another old friend-in Omaha...
...burly bulk (5 ft.11 in., 225 Ibs.) hit the dust (see cut). Nudists rallied to revive him with a first-aid kit. a camp chair and a sandwich. A few minutes later, he tried again, fell even harder. Next day Preacher Sawyer came back, once again found the gate guarded. Said he earnestly: "I intend to intensify my campaign ... I give them credit for being as sincere as I am. When public sentiment has decided the issue, I am ready to shut up . . .But there are times when Samson has to take the jawbone of an ass and whip...
...five years at trying to convince U.S. beer drinkers that "Guinness is good for you," will give up. Guinness will close its Long Island City plant (annual capacity: 100,000 bbls.), meet the U.S. demand for its rich Irish brew with exports from the famed St. James's Gate brewery in Dublin (capacity: 3,500,000 bbls...