Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, he says, he had thought the slogan on the main gate of Auschwitz the most cynical and indecent in the world. It was it the dusty stacks of Widenel Library and Langdell Hall that I realized it was indeed work that brings freedom...
...constant it becomes mundane: the brothels, the body pits, the typhus, the orchestra of European virtuosos forced to sit near the machine--gun towers playing Mozart while the furnaces belched fire and smoke "Most cynical and indecent" of all. Pisar recalls, was the sign which hung above the main gate of Auschwitz proclaiming Arbeit Machl Frei--"Work Brings Freedom...
...soon as I turned the corner onto St. Peter Street, a pounding in the chest that was as familiar as the humid embrace of a New Orleans summer night. It grew stronger as I crossed Royal Street and saw the two battered music cases hanging over a wrought-iron gate. Brass letters on them spelled out the words PRESERVATION HALL. I heard a bass drum, a sprinkle of piano notes and the growl of a trumpet driving home a blues chorus...
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...billion-plus total comes to nearly one-quarter of the human race. If all Chinese stood in rows four abreast, 6 ft. apart, and marched through Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace at a steady pace of 3 m.p.h., it would take more than ten years for them to pass. Though Peking's tough birth-control measures have cut population growth from 2.1% a year in 1964 to 1.4% a year now, a baby is born every two seconds...