Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Solidarity was born. In recent months Poles had staged symbolic work stoppages and street demonstrations to protest the imposition of martial law last December. This time the angry workers arriving for the first shift at the Lenin shipyard wanted action: they called a wildcat strike. Before long, Gate No. 2, scene of so much activity two years earlier as Solidarity grew into a force that shook the Communist bloc, was once again covered with red-and-white national banners, papal portraits and flowers. As strikers in drab blue overalls and hard hats chanted slogans, Poles massed outside to cheer...
...here they were again, bickering and moaning about who could speak when and who could respond to what. Everybody agreed that a primary council mission had to be "educating the student body" and that the government had to get out of the starting gate fast. But for the most part, nobody could think...
That total does not include a far greater number of firms, perhaps as many as 4,000 weekly, that simply fold up and quit after paying off their debts. When a plant gate is padlocked or when the neighborhood dry cleaner shuts its doors, jobs are lost, investments vanish, and dreams turn into dust...
...been called better things than dirty, but not often, is no stick in the mud, either. Though he's winless in three starts on Big Red so far this season, he knows he's got the horses (Harmon, Menapace and Miller) to win anytime out of the gate, providing Big Red doesn't come up with a burn leg (which forced him to bow out in the second half of last week's race) Blackman may also be in trouble if the air is clear and the skies are not cloudy...
...camp and after an interrogation was turned over to Israeli soldiers across the street from Shatila. Soon the Palestinian civilians who had been rounded up in Sabra began following them. But these had one last ordeal to face. As the crowd of several hundred panicky refugees approached the southern gate of Shatila, the militiamen segregated them by sex. The men were ordered to march past a parked Land Rover. From inside the vehicle, a man pointed out those who should be separated from the rest. The selected ones were led away. Their fate is unknown...