Word: gated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dovev, midway along the border, men and women, children and old people, sick and hale, last week trooped to the Israeli gate across a tobacco field green with flowering plants. A clinic had been set up; those seeking medical care were given numbers by armed Israeli soldiers and shown a place to wait. An outhouse and a pipe for drinking water had also been put up near by. "In sha 'allah, let it be like this for the rest of our lives," said a young Maronite farmer at the fence last week...
...young men were rejected, however, after an Israeli officer spotted their names on a list of "undesirables." Near the gate, farmers stacked bales of tobacco. An Israeli buyer went through the bales, grading them under the watchful eyes of their Arab growers. This year Israel expects to purchase $ 1.2 million worth of Lebanese tobacco for resale to Greece...
...Tuna. Papa John Creach's band, also at Lenox Music Inn. Saturday, September 4, at 5 p.m. (All the Music Inn tickets are $5.50 in advance, $6.50 at the gate, and can be purchased from Ticketron or from the Music...
...revelry scene. Its major disclosure: more beer and less Scotch was being offered than in 1972. Dozens of reporters on the liquid late-night beat and even some bona fide guests could not gain entry to a supper sponsored by Rolling Stone magazine because of unexpected crowds of gate crashers. The problem was that veteran Prankster Dick Tuck had printed thousands of counterfeit invitations in Reliable Source, an irreverent daily tabloid that he published during the convention...
...neither. He is impatient to visit the region where he lived and labored a century ago. The travelers drive north along the wild California coast at Big Sur and into San Francisco?charmingly provincial still, studiously cosmopolitan. Even Twain is impressed with that great sculpture in steel, the Golden Gate Bridge. People, he is told, come from miles around just to jump from it, but these visitors prefer to enjoy the scene from the hills immediately northwest of the span...