Word: gated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Georges Carpentier, 81, light-heavyweight boxing champion from 1920 to 1922, who lost on a fourth-round knockout to Heavyweight Jack Dempsey in 1921 's "Battle of the Century" in Jersey City, boxing's first million-dollar gate; of a heart attack; in Paris...
...Richard Nolan, 31, is a Democratic Congressman from Minnesota. "When you are in the political arena," he says, "your day can start at 6 or 7 in the morning at a plant gate, and before you know it, it's 4 in the afternoon and you still have hours of work in front of you. That's when it is nice to meditate, so you can get the rest you need...
When collectors and dealers walked by their gate to call on Villon, Kupka and his mountainous wife Eugenie would peer through the shutters at them, too proud to show themselves. The collectors never stopped at the Kupkas'. In the past, they had been so poor that Eugenie Kupka now and then had to buy old tablecloths and underwear in the flea market, launder them and sell them to raise a few francs...
...night. "After we got settled a little after 12:30 a.m., I began writing my English 12 paper. I finished it around 3 a.m., had some hot chocolate, talked to some folk and went to sleep. At 5 a.m. somebody yelled "better run" and everyone panicked and headed for Gate C. And there we stood for four hours waiting for tickets...
...Official Trips accompany the President, a force that grows to 25 when he is confronted with large holiday crowds. As in most European countries, local forces are expected to provide additional security forces as needed. At Elysee Palace, a small unit of seven to nine men guard the gate, while the rest of the palace is watched over by a dozen or so city policemen. Files are kept on potential assassins and all threats are investigated, but, says one senior ministry official with a shrug, "The danger here, like everywhere, is the nut-and that we can't protect...