Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tourists will use a gate that maintains both tradition and security...
...White House is not only the President's residence and office but also one of the most public of public buildings. On a pleasant summer day as many as 8,000 visitors line up along the east side of the White House. They now enter at the east gate, opposite the Department of the Treasury Building. They pass through metal detectors under the East Portico...
...reporters in Israel, trying to get past Israeli border guards into Lebanon was a quasi-military operation. NBC Cameraman Yossi Greenberg tried the direct approach: he raced through an open gate at 80 m.p.h. in a rented car. This prompted a guard to fire over his head with an M-16 automatic rifle to try to scare him back. Later, Greenberg, like other reporters, took advantage of an opening in the 60-mile-long border fence into Lebanon. In the first two days some correspondents slipped past simply by following Israeli armored columns through the gap; the dust churned...
...frightened by his own demons, Hardy kept a decent distance in his life from all whirlwinds. He spent the better part of his days in the upstairs study of an ugly, respectable villa called Max Gate. Even his walks into the Dorset countryside-referred to as Wessex in his novels-tended to be circumscribed: the strolls of a suburbanite. Visitors expressed surprise at his pallor...
Egil ("Bud") Krogh, 42, Ehrlichman's White House assistant and member of plumbers. Pleaded guilty to charges stemming from burglary of office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Served four months. Taught government and law at San Francisco's Golden Gate University before regaining right to practice law in 1980. Now an attorney in Seattle. Says Watergate taught him "the limitations of presidential power. It was a positive experience, but I don't recommend...