Word: gated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Caracas today. They're small, those Lears, he said, but they can make it to Miami in 2 1/2 hours. We said we'd take that, and were wondering whether we'd brought enough suntan oil when the fat blue executive appeared. This time he walked us to the gate...
...building, inventing, promoting, hustling in unpretentious, wholly individualistic ways. He devised a moveable fence in Milwaukee, which helped home-team hitters, and he put fireworks in the Cleveland Scoreboard to salute home-team home runs. He sent a midget to bat in St. Louis, and offered live lobsters as gate prizes to his fans. Critics said he turned baseball into a circus. Replied Veeck: Was there anything wrong with the circus...
...Suicide in San Francisco; or The End of the Frontier: Correlations between Point of Origin, Level of Education, Time of Arrival, and Number of Rotations between New York and San Francisco of 150 Suicides Who Jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge...
Lily can become one of her "real" people very suddenly. At a dinner, when the conversation has begun to annoy her, she will pucker her lips and pull her face down so that it looks long enough to get her into the starting gate at Aqueduct. That will be Ernestine...
Hill hammers away at the necessity of charging spectators for future home games in conjunction with added frills to bolster gate receipts. He feels, for example, a raffle with lucrative prizes at home games would turn out the fans even if a minimal admission fee was charged. In addition, a $5 season ticket package would also be an alluring attraction...