Word: gated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary Arthur Goldberg to order the removal of the 1,700 braceros employed at the 15 struck ranches. Thus emboldened, the A.W.O.C. now threatens other valley lettuce farms, will probably hit the highly perishable valley melon crop after the lettuce season ends. With a foot in the ranchers' gate, the unions are now hoping to kick the gate down...
...frenzied crowd saw any African as an enemy. One was killed outside the cemetery gate, and for half an hour passing Portuguese would stop and flail the lifeless body. With police help, a terrified African woman and her children escaped in a hail of stones. An African man was cornered in a shed across the road and shot to death. Another was chased to the roof of a warehouse, ran wildly along the ridge as whites took potshots at him like a duck in a shooting gallery. Ten Africans died in the rioting...
...went bankrupt. Robertson made it just in time, drove a hard bargain with the Royals, who realized that he could always peddle his spectacular talents to the showboating, all-Negro Globetrotters. His three-year contract calls for an annual salary of about $33,000, plus a percentage of the gate that should boost the total take to around...
...plane, but had to turn back because of mechanical difficulties. Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic and the canniest professional of the lot, was en route by sea in his official yacht Al Hurriyah (Freedom). Nasser, who claims leadership of Africa because Egypt guards "the northern gate of the continent," suffered mortification when he arrived without the two Egyptian corvettes assigned to escort him. Reportedly, they ran out of fuel and had to be ignominiously towed into a Spanish port...
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