Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Help would simply involve a couple of hours one day a week, tutoring kids at the Mead School, adjacent to the housing project. Coll is trying to organize a shuttle bus to make getting there a matter of minutes from Johnston Gate...
Thousands climbed up Whiteface Mountain to watch Stenmark in the first of two runs in the giant slalom. At the countdown, Stenmark poled powerfully out of the start house and into the first few tightly set gates. He was minutely off on the turns at first, then settled into the swoopingly rhythmic gate-to-gate dance that makes his style instantly recognizable. Just at the penultimate gate, Stenmark slid down so low on his right ski that his body was canted almost parallel to the snow. For an instant, it looked as though his try for gold would vanish...
Mahre is a strong and bold competitor. His first run down Whiteface last week was a brilliant attack-nothing held back, no ghosts, no fear, just a great technical skier slicing through the gates on a line as pure and fast as the mountain would allow. Leading after that first run, he was hardly out of the start house on the second when a bouncing gate pole dropped across his skis, slowing him for an instant, upsetting his concentration, almost making him fall. The damage was done; the imperturbable Stenmark overtook Mahre in the second run and snared the gold...
...There is no average day--you never know what's going to come up." Burns says afterwards. This day, someone inadvertently shut the power off at Peabody, leaving the gate locked. Mission accomplished, Burns returns within an hour...
...ruled the roost. Today Misia would be a committee of women. FIZDALE: Some of her life is not well documented. However we knew, or came to know, all the people around her. It was like a puzzle, or detective work. GOLD: Now we are like horses at the gate. We have been watching Balanchine's ballets since they were performed at the Central High School of Needle Trades. His world is a little island of paradise. We are starting on a book about his life before he came to the United States in 1934. It's exciting...