Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take is fat enough, as it has been in New York and Philadelphia, the players will be shooting for $4,000 to the winner, will have to settle for $2,500, $1,500 or $1,000 in defeat. In other cities, they will play for comparable percentages of the gate...
...their trials. I found one man whom the warden had no record of, but who had been in prison (working in coal mines) for over five years. Investigation proved that he merely accompanied a convicted friend from the mines at Joplin to bid him goodbye at the penitentiary gate. As he walked in, the gates closed. They cut off his hair, dressed him in striped clothes and kept him for no reason ... as he could not talk English...
...century theologian Origen seems to have thought so, and some of the early church writers agreed with him. But Christian theology crystallized around the opposite view: the Devil is everlastingly damned to an everlasting Hell, and Dante put it in a famous nutshell with the inscription over the gate to his Inferno-Abandon hope, all ye who enter here...
Died. James Leo ("One-Eye") Connelly, 84, who devoted a lifetime to gate-crashing and became a sports-page legend during the '20s; in Zion, Ill. One eye blinded in a boyhood boxing accident, Connelly masqueraded as a sandwich vendor, iceman, or plumber's helper to outwit gatemen and gain free admission. Before he retired at 65, he boasted that during his career he had seen every Kentucky Derby, all but three heavyweight-championship bouts, countless football and baseball games, on principle had never paid for or accepted a ticket...
...than 100 years the warehouse of the Far East, was also taking a cure. Amid cries of street hawkers and the deafening uproar from a string of 100,000 firecrackers to drive off evil spirits. Hong Kong's Governor Sir Alexander Grantham stepped up to a huge, towered gate decorated with neon lights, elaborate flowers and the Union Jack. Snipping a ribbon, he opened a powerful testimonial to the cure's success: the colony's eleventh annual exhibition of local manufactures. Hong Kong expected trade delegations from all over the world to attend...