Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poised near the starting gate, awaiting her turn, the girl showed only one touch of tension: her classically lean features were set firmly as she clenched...
...eyes of the U.S. focused last week on a frontier gate where the road from Red Hungary leads into Austria. In the chill, gathering dusk, a convoy of three black cars, their windows heavily curtained, pulled up on the road from Budapest. Four U.S. airmen, hemmed in by Red guards, stepped down from the autos. They were unshaved and shaggy-haired, tense and stiffly suspicious; their uniforms were rumpled and dirty. Then, out of the darkness, an American voice boomed at them: "Welcome to freedom...
Orson Welles, who has had his share of curtain boos and offstage hisses, found that his mere presence in an audience could be hooted too. When he arrived at Dublin's Gate Theater to see a play, he was greeted at the theater door by a banner-waving picket line whose signs read "Not wanted, Orson Welles, Stalin's star . . . Dublin rejects Communistic front star . . ." But inside, Welles got cheers when he said: "I am not a Communist. I never was a Communist. I came here to see a play." He also got a character reference of sorts...
...knowing reader's translation: On July 23rd, Stormy Ruth ran in the first race at Jamaica, a $6500 claimer, five and a half furlongs, on a fast track. She broke from post position three, was third out of the gate, was in front at the quarter, dropped back to third at the half, was third by four lengths in the stretch, finished ninth, beaten 17 lengths...
...using the term "football is big business said he did not mean attracting large gate crowds by hiring football players. He told Sandler that football management and coaching could not be done by amateurs "in an off-hand manager." To do so, Jordan said according to Sandler, "is to ignore the complexity of the operation...