Word: gated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over a VHP radio we tuned in to the mission wardens' control center (code-named "Dodge City") and learned that the U.S. embassy was in trouble. "Marines to the gate as soon as possible," the operator called. Minutes later: "There are 2,000 people in front of the gate. It's getting hostile." Still later: "The gates are open. We've lost control of the crowd...
...black bus, its windows wire-meshed to ward off rocks and grenades, rolled through the gate into Tan Son Nhut Air base on the edge of Saigon. Special police and South Vietnamese air force guards?ordinarily sticklers for formality?barely glanced up as they waved the vehicle on. Among the mixed load of American and Vietnamese passengers was Howard Hagen, an aircraft technician from Odessa, Texas, and more recently from Danang, South Viet Nam. "I just wish it hadn't turned out this way," said Hagen. "I'm leaving with a sad heart...
...fashionable Cercle Sportif Francais, center of the social life of the wealthy Saigonese, champagne was served as usual beside the greenlined swimming pool. At the Club Nautique de Saigon, racing shells got another coat of varnish, as though the joys of summer would never end. The front gate of the My Canh restaurant, where two Viet Cong Claymore mines killed 48 diners in 1965, was being painted a sparkling aquamarine...
Master Derby's mud-running heroics last week also eclipsed the valiant efforts of a horse named Harvard Man, who left the gate in the Blue Grass as a 35-1 long shot and finished eighth in the field of nine. Harvard Man, who finished second to Foolish Pleasure in the Champagne Stakes last year, has been one of the biggest disappointments of this racing season, to say the least...
...final point of interest in the Blue Grass was the performance, or lack of it, by a West Coast invader named Avatar. Jockey Willie Shoemaker says that the horse had his head down in the starting gate and got away poorly, which should explain his lack of punch...