Word: gated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city materializes. There are people in blue waiting for buses or looking. Nobody waves. There has been no organized welcome, no cymbals and drums. Past the Gate of Heavenly Peace, painted red except for its weathered orange tiles. Past the Great Hall of the People and the Hotel of Nationalities. Opposite the guesthouse is a terrace for fishing. The lake is frozen now, but a small pavilion with a two-tiered green-tiled roof juts above the ice. It is the classic moon-viewing site for composing poems, sipping wine, watching the willows on the shoreline and contemplating nature...
...Nixon at the airport, and TV screens then would record a strange sight: Nixon, the champion of capitalism, riding with Chou in an official black Hongchi (Red Flag) car and entering Tienanmen Square. There they would pass the ancient scarlet walls of China's imperial past and the Gate of Heavenly Peace, from which Chairman Mao Tse-tung in 1949 proclaimed the birth of the People's Republic...
...first week could have qualified for such commendation. Being new and eager, I offered to work my first Sunday, the only free day of the week, on a rescue dig. Bulldozers excavating for the foundations of a modern office building had unearthed important remains of the southern gate into the town, and a mercy period of several weeks was granted for an excavation to exhaust the site before modern construction destroyed it forever. Under the pressure of a deadline, some ten diggers worked at a fast pace in the cold and rain all day. I barely knew what...
...contagious. Going into the women's slalom, the U.S.'s hopes hinged on Marilyn and Barbara Cochran, the two sisters who with brother Bob made the U.S. ski team something of a family affair. The sisters' chances were quickly halved, however, when Marilyn, 22, snagged a gate in her first run and tumbled out of the race. Then, out of the snow flurries came Barbara, 21. Cutting corners dangerously close, she whizzed home with the fastest time in the first of the two heats. Refusing to look at her competitors lest their difficulties make her "too cautious...
...already left this place. I'm on another plateau. I am waiting for my death, yet I am not born yet." Then Bly-den holds up a clenched fist and walks to the door. A guard opens the steel gate and takes him back into prison...