Word: gated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reports of disorders,, "Mobilize the troops in northern Greece," the King told Rallis. "Have them move down to Athens." Moments later, the King learned that his Premier, Panayotis Kanellopoulos, had been deposed and arrested. Guards then reported that three tanks had taken up positions by the gate of Tatoi Palace. Desperate for information, the King called nearby Tatoi military airbase. The duty officer reported that Tatoi had been seized. "Who signed the orders?" asked the King. "General Pattakos," replied the officer. The King knew Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos, head of the Athens tank force; it was then that he realized...
Sandpile. As Egyptian temples go, Dendur is a midget. It weighs a mere 800 tons, consists of only three rooms and a monumental entry gate, measures 82 ft. from front to back. Nonetheless, more than 20 U.S. museums, appropriately including one each from Memphis, Tenn., and Cairo, Ill., applied for it. The two leading contenders were Washington's Smithsonian and New York's Met, and the jockeying in what became known as "the Dendur Derby" began right from the start. When the White House asked the Smithsonian to name a committee to award the temple, the Met protested...
...women-one who is frightened of men. She almost gets over this block after a weekend with a jaded Jamaican named Auro, who has "the palest Negro skin" she has ever seen. When she arrives back home after dark, the poor dopey male, Tom, is waiting at the gate to punish his faithless Patsy. "He rose as she went through the gate and acted so deftly that the scream she let out got lost in her throat as a wail. She died with her back to him and as she fell, he helped her down." Then he saw that...
Admission to the full slate of baseball and lacrosse games against Yale Saturday at Soldiers Field will be coupon No. 38. Additional admissions may be purchased at the gate...
...scales that we see in butcher shops and bus stations from Rocky's New York to Ronnie's California. Truly a picture worth a thousand votes. Let's have more of Conrad as the boys jockey for position on the way to the starting gate...