Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consistently outmaneuvered the government team. Every evening, Walesa would climb the flower-covered main gate to give news of the talks to the crowd outside. His appearance was greeted by cheers and rousing choruses of Sto Lat (May He Live a Hundred Years). He responded with his actor's instincts, regaling his audience with jokes and raising his clenched fist in salute. Bantering with foreign journalists, he announced, "I am the leader...
...heady days of August 1980, the closed gate of the Lenin Shipyard in the Baltic port city of Gdansk became a symbol of the spirit of Solidarity, the newly formed independent trade union movement. It was here that Lech Walesa, the movement's leader, first made his demands for economic and social reform. Months later, when Solidarity swept the country, a monument was erected at the gate to commemorate both the birth of the union in 1980 and the 45 Poles killed in the food riots of 1970. Last week, shortly after the army and police had broken a strike...
...After two days of waiting, anxious revolutionary committeemen herded the press out of our hotels for a breathtaking, Libyan-style drive through the narrow streets of Tripoli. Lights blinking and horns blaring, the wild caravan raced to a walled compound where soldiers wielding submachine guns waved us through a gate flanked by two Russian T-72 tanks. For the fifth time since my arrival I was thoroughly searched. Inside the handsome government offices with beautifully crafted wooden Arabic arches, television crews set up their equipment on priceless rugs. Then a top Gaddafi aide, sporting a natty pinstripe suit under immaculate...
...assembled outside Warsaw's Fire Fighters Academy. A few seconds later, the chopper disgorged on the academy roof a unit of riot police that swiftly vanished into the building. As the helicopter flew off to pick up reinforcements, hundreds of helmeted militiamen entered the academy's side gate. The 300 men holed up inside quickly surrendered and were marched out of the building by a back exit...
...this time, however, so much snow had fallen that the going was even tougher, and it was almost nine o'clock when the bus hit Cambridge. Turning into Soldiers Field was another matter, and the vehicle ended up wedged between the stone gate posts at the parking lot entrance. Assorted people left there, but "there was another breakdown after that," said Cleary. "I didn't leave Dillon until noon...