Word: gated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game booths, carrousels, sausage counters and Ferris wheels. The displays are trimmed with Tannenbaum branches and Christmas decorations, but the people remain grim and unconvivial. At the intersection of Wilhelmstrasse and Unter den Linden, knots of East Berliners gather to stare wistfully westward through the columns of the Brandenburg Gate. Murmured a bespectacled worker: "The Americans should have torn down the Wall. Now it is too late...
...documentary called "Sunday" shows the demonstration protesting a police ban on folk-singing in Washington Square, and is currently entered at the Tours Film Festival in France. It was very well received at the July 1961 Spoleto Festival organized by Gian-Carl Menotti, and subsequently took a second Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival in November...
During the relatively quiet years, an average of 600 a day crossed over. In the weeks of Torschlnsspanik (gate-closing panic) just before the Wall went up Aug. 13, the number rose to an astounding 1,700 a day. Last month, defying the walls, watchtowers, guards and dogs, about 860 ran the gantlet to West Germany, about half through divided Berlin and half across the zonal border. For October the total figure was even higher: about...
...chimes in the Spassky tower atop a Kremlin gate struck 10 as Nikita Khrushchev, his party leaders and foreign guests filed up the steps to the top of the tomb. Last of all came 80-year-old Kliment Voroshilov, who had publicly apologized for his "antiparty" misdeeds and apparently assumed all was forgiven. An armed guard barred his way. Voroshilov made a second attempt to join his old comrades through a side door of the Mausoleum and was ejected by a plainclothesman. He then stood pathetically beside a white-smocked woman selling ice cream and watched somberly as Defense Minister...
...United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged . . . on account of sex") and rippled away. American women, says Mary Bunting, became "somewhat like a dog I knew who, long after the front fence had been removed, ran down the road to the place where the gate used...