Word: gated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gate. What a salt mine. In the Cabinet Room next day, the President decided to hold another of his in formal press conferences, the kind that rarely delivers any real news but nevertheless gives the impression of vital communication. Later that same day he played Pied Piper...
...lunchtime, and Johnson and Aide Bill Moyers were leaving the President's office. Moyers said casually, "Let's take a walk." Lyndon agreed, and the two ambled down the path toward the southeast gate of the White House. Behind the fence were 100 pop-eyed out-of-towners- many of them, as it turned out, from foreign countries -who were in town to see the cherry blossoms and other notable sights. Lyndon walked up to the gates and said to them: "Would you like to take a walk with me before lunch?" With that, he ordered the gates...
...feel like I've been on a tour!" One of the last tourists to leave sidled up to a watching newsman, tugged at his sleeve and said: "Excuse me, sir. I just came in on the plane from Denmark a little while ago and came by the gate." Gesturing to his fellow tourists chatting with the President, he asked: "Er . . . does this sort of thing happen very often...
...Olympic Fencing Team, 1924 Vails Gate...
...science, breeding race horses is as risky as roulette. Horsemen estimate that fully one fourth of the foals dropped never get to the starting gate. The odds against producing a Kentucky Derby winner are about 14,000 to 1. However, Wright struck it rich: in 1936, at the Saratoga yearling sale, he bid $14,000 for a brown colt named Bull Lea. On the track, Bull Lea won a useful $94,825. But it was in the barn with the mares that Bull Lea lived up to his name. By last year, his offspring, most notably Citation, Armed and Iron...