Word: gated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, after 93 lonely days on the Pacific, he finally saw the fog rise over the Golden Gate Bridge, politely offered sake to the puzzled U.S. immigration officials who met him. The immigration service decided to grant a one-month visa, and Happy Horie popped off to see the sights, surrounded by the giggling infield of Osaka's touring girls' Softball team. Back home, Japanese officials had to decide whether to fine Horie for illegal exit or hail him as a national hero, the first Japanese to sail the Pacific solo...
...claim to offer what is at once the cheapest and the best. The organization is extrovert, outgoing and inquisitive." Male Superiority. Quite the opposite is j the female corporation. "Its factory buildings are prettily sited and smartly kept with pastel shades in the paintwork and flower beds near the gate. There can be too much fuss over details, an insistence on exact procedure and an overemphasis on the appearance (as opposed to the reality) of competence. In general, the female trend is toward economy and financial caution. Faced with a recession, the female corporation hastens to curtail expenditure and reduce...
...filled with dogwood, rhododendron and massive trees. Since it is not open so early in the morning, Byrd for years used to crawl on his belly through a hole in the fence. Then the hole was patched. Byrd hesitantly asked if he might have his own key to the gate-something the Park Service would have granted long ago at the slightest hint. "I got 'em to put in the Shenandoah Park when I was Governor. It was the Depression then, but I got a million dollars out of Congress, and we raised another million. Ickes wouldn...
...will leave Thayer Gate at 10 a.m. and return to Cambridge around 6 p.m. Bus tickets will cost $3 and admission to the parachuting...
...stand-in for honor, and he demands some elaborate Italian form of face-saving military etiquette. Nonsense, says Niven, holding out for unconditional surrender. While the British major is practicing imaginary golf strokes with a curved tree branch, the entire Italian garrison bolts through the fort's rear gate. Before long, the two commanders get their troops mutually marooned on an island, and mutually ambushed by hostile Africans. The film's humanistic argument, never preachy and never entirely convincing, is that folly brings out the brotherhood...