Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago) to work on a story about the King's illness for the Medicine section, set Joan Bruce to digging up some of the unusual prerogatives of the British monarch, and sent A. T. Baker to Sandringham. Stopped politely by the police constable at the massive gate to the castle, Baker visited local pubs, knocked on strange doors, interviewed storekeepers who held royal warrants and talked to villagers sloshing through wet fields...
Lowered Flags. As the news of the King's death spread in ever-widening circles out of London, many met it in bewilderment or plain disbelief. " 'Ere now, don't you go spreading rumors about like that," said a burly policeman at Sandringham's gate to an early-bird reporter. Even after the rumor became an official bulletin, announced by the BBC and newspaper extras, some at first refused to believe it. "After all," argued an indignant Londoner, "Mr. Churchill didn't announce it." "It can't be true," cried an old lady...
...approach to racing is basically sane and even serious, but with an upper layer of humor. There was, for instance, the time he sent Rusty Gate out hopelessly for the Saratoga Cup and, instead of riding orders, gave Ted Atkinson a sandwich, a container of milk and a wrist compass, remarking he might be out a long time...
...Andrea Mead Lawrence, the Austrian international giant slalom; at Bad Gas-tein. Competing against Olympic squad members of six nations, Skier Lawrence twisted & turned through the 42-gate course of 1,100 yards in 2102.5, more than three seconds faster than Austria's Erika Mahringer. Third, further boosting U.S. Olympic hopes: Seattle's Janette Burr. CJ ¶Ex-Wisconsin Runner Don Gehrmann, the Philadelphia Inquirer Mile, with a characteristic kick sprint that nipped FBI-Man Fred Wilt by 5 ft. Gehrmann's time, breaking the meet record by more than a second: 4:10.2. Next night...
...regarded as an athletic deficit but is as much a proper charge against the resources of the Faculty as the maintenance of a library or a laboratory." He also pointed out that the University has arranged "for the coming football seasons without regard to the gate receipts and provided for lighter schedules...