Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lovely city of Peking had no Red Square, like Moscow's. So the Reds made one. In Gate-of-Heavenly-Peace Square, at the gates to the Forbidden City of the Manchus, where Mao now dwells in palatial simplicity, the army had laid a new roadway strong enough to sustain the crunch of parading Red tanks. Red bunting had been distributed to citizens by the bolt-even the coolies' rickshaws were red-draped. A band of 700 musicians played the new song, The East Is Red, the Sun Is Rising; schoolchildren released thousands of peace doves, which napped...
...attend a flag ceremony that morning at Campo de Mayo, another big outlying army base. About 9, as a few air force and navy planes flew low over the presidential palace and dropped leaflets announcing the revolt, an officer driving up to Campo de Mayo saw soldiers scuffling inside gate No. 8. He spun his car round, raced back to the capital with the second alarm...
...hours over classic volumes on military strategy, kept a string of race horses, fought pistol duels for Rachel's honor and full-scale battles (New Orleans) for his country's. Small wonder that when, to top it all, he was inaugurated President, a mob of his admirers gate-crashed the White House (and soiled the rugs and chairs with their muddy boots), trying to embrace...
GERMANY Out of the Desert Lili Marlene's oldest friends had a get-together last week.* Into the hilly Westphalian town of Iserlohn, through the city gate topped by a huge iron cross memorializing the Franco-Prussian War, trooped 2,500 Germans. They eagerly searched each other's faces, occasionally stopping to shake hands amid exclamations like: "Aren't you Schmidt of the 15th?", "Wasn't I with you at El Alamein?" It was the first reunion of Germany's famed Afrika Korps. At ceremonies in the town cemetery they paid sober honor to their...
Although the schedule may not prove much at Harvard alone, it is well-planned throughout the country. The results should be interesting. What would happen, if it were proven that the broadcast of the Yale-Cornell game kept some 10,000 potential customers from the local stadium gate? Suppose this were duplicated all over the country. Would the NCAA forbid Notre Dame from telecasting? Would it keep the television revenue from Harvard when it was shown that its games kept no one from doing anything...