Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Body Worship." Six cassocked priests, accompanied by 200 of their supporters, turned up at the gate, carrying picket signs that read, "Stop this body-worship." Then another group ran a fishing boat close inshore, a few hundred feet from the Argentina, and tried to storm the beachhead from behind. This disturbance distressed Athens Police Chief Nicholas Tsaousis, who was inside the nightclub, in white jacket, strictly in line of duty. "Pick a few of them up," he commanded...
...they entered their old colleges and once again moved into their old rooms, they found that many of the gate porters still recognized them. As of old, the scholars slept in their old Victorian mahogany beds, shaved in the morning at the same old jug and bowl. "It is still 100 yards to the nearest john," complained one ex-scholar. All over Oxford, middle-aged men showed off old haunts to their wives. Arkansas' Senator James Fulbright, awarded an Oxonian honorary degree, said nostalgically: "Nothing has changed-only...
Across town at the White House gate, hundreds of picketers marched with pro-Rosenberg placards; opposing demonstrators carried signs that read "Kill the Dirty Spies." A stream of mail from every quarter of the globe flowed to the President's desk. The Red campaign to "save the Rosenbergs" may have inspired the pleas, but many of them came from non-Communist clergymen and scientists, from liberals and humanitarians, from those who thought it bad politics to let the Communists have "martyrs" for their propaganda. At the focus of pressure, Dwight Eisenhower did not flinch...
Martha had enough guests without any gate-crashers: 428 Senators, Congressmen, ambassadors, admirals, generals, Cabinet officers, newsmen, lobbyists and some friends. Almost everybody who was anybody showed up, except the Supreme Court Justices, who were busy with life & death matters (see above). Joe McCarthy escorted his brunette ex-secretary, Jean Kerr. Asked by press photographers to pose for a picture with Miss Kerr, McCarthy snapped: "You know we don't pose for that kind of picture." A lot of guests went out of their way not to chat with McCarthy, yet he was not lonely. His committee counsel, little...
That night, the Soviet occupiers began to round up rioters and ringleaders-or those they accused of being one or the other. Before dawn, a Soviet firing squad marched on to a field not far from the Brandenburg Gate and shot down the first of them, an unemployed West Berlin truck driver named Willi Goettling. His wife swore he had nothing to do with the uprising...