Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last cold-scented Saturday afternoon I would walk through the brick-and-iron gate with that copper "1" adorning...
When a Jeep Cherokee or a pickup truck with smoked windows approaches the main gate of the University of El Salvador, some students instinctively dart for cover. Though such vehicles are common in El Salvador's capital, they have gained notoriety as the favored conveyance of right-wing death squads, and occasionally spray the campus with anonymous gunfire. Two months ago the head of the university's employees' union was shoved into a black-windowed truck. He has not been seen since...
...chartered bus to the Harvard-Connecticut contest will leave Cambridge at 10 a.m. for the 1 p.m. game. The cost per person for transportation will be $10, with game tickets available at the gate...
...most prominent change: explosive growth. RHD-II contains 50,000 new entries, most of them words that have come into use since 1966. The field of business and finance has contributed its share (greenmail, golden parachute), as have science and technology (string theory, user friendly), government (disinformation, -gate as an all-purpose suffix for scandals), social trends (yuppie, underclass) and relations between the sexes (significant other, palimony...
...WHAT did the University provide as an alternative to a quiet reading in houses where friends from high school were turned away at the gate? Disappointment...