Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cool, grey morning last week, a drab Molotov truck pulled up with a growl in front of the triple-arched "Freedom Gate" at Panmunjom. Pale hands and paler faces appeared from behind the grey canvas that covered...
WEST Germany's Krupp-controlled Stahlbau (steel construction company) Rheinhausen is negotiating with the Turkish government to build a $65 million, ¾-mile-long bridge across the Bosporus at Istanbul. Next to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, it would be the world's longest span...
...with axes or dynamite. Today, logging's storybook excitement and din is again lost to unspectacular efficiency. If wood piles up behind rocks, or wanders high and dry up on the river bank. Jenssen will casually ignore it most of the summer. At length he will signal the gate-tenders of the great Gouin Reservoir at the St. Maurice's headwaters. Switches will be flicked. A flood of extra water will dissolve the jams and rush the beached wood along on its interrupted journey. Pushbutton logging is here to stay, but the dead yesterday of whiter water, bigger...
Last week, in the Brooklyn Handicap, third race of the Handicap Triple Crown, they loaded 136 Ibs. on Tom Fool. It meant he was giving away weights ranging from 26 to 31 Ibs. to the other entries. Tom Fool broke fast from the starting gate, ran easily in second place until he hit the far turn. There, Jockey Atkinson loosened his tight hold on the reins, clucked once, and Tom Fool took off. Never under a whip, never under pressure, Tom Fool won easily, by a length and a half...
After three years, Pops got tired of all the tomfoolery and gave his promising young singers the gate, but a little later the doorway to fame flew wide open for Bing. CBS offered him a sustaining spot, and all at once the little catch in his voice caught the ear of everybody and his little sister...