Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...south west corner of the Yard is a gate bearing in its comet arch, the directive, "Open yo the Gates that the righteous Nation which keeps the truth Entereth in." But this entrance between Strauss Hall and Lahrriun Hall will be locked at least until the middle of September as construction workers move it forward a few feet...
...vote, the ban-the-beach hard-liners prevailed once more last week. Afterward, Parente posed provocatively in front of the Soviet mansion, while a German shepherd behind the iron gate growled softly. The State Department referred the matter to the Justice Department for investigation...
Goulet, who stars at Las Vegas' Dunes, got his job by agreeing to a unique deal: the casino gives him no fee at all, but picks up all costs and splits the gate with him. If he packs the house, he can make about $40,000 a week. Other stars have cut their asking prices. Bobby Vinton and Dionne Warwick, for instance, have gone down from $125,000 a week...
Over discreetly served drinks, old Chautauquans love to startle visitors with the information that deeds to property within the gate of the institution still give the management the right (never enforced) to buy back houses in which liquor has been detected. Self-satisfaction is not unknown here, and the degree to which Chautauqua is Waspy, churchy and arty recalls an era when culture in the U.S. was a conspiracy between the pastors and the women, and manly men sulked as they were dragged to concerts...
...graffiti testament in rooms once occupied by the likes of Isadora Duncan and Somerset Maugham. He has barely finished when someone stabs him. The body and the writing are found by American soldiers, liberators of the death camps. Captain Freyberg, a fanatical Nazi-hunter who ironically places the Dachau gate sign, ARBEIT MACHT FREI (Work shall set you free), over his desk, checks off Mauberley as one more fascist corpse. Lieut. Quinn is not so sure. He begins to examine the handwriting on the wall...