Word: gately
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heifers & Ducks. Ike indicated a near by pasture and said: "Let's take her down there and turn her loose." The President unfastened the gate himself, and slapped Irvington Roamiss Pear on the rump. "O.K., you're loose now, baby," he said. The heifer reared up on her hind legs, clicked her front hooves and gamboled into the pasture...
...your hands," hissed an Irish voice out of the darkness. It was 2 a.m. and rainy, and the unarmed sentry at the gate of the British army's training center at Arborfield, 40 miles west of London, did as he was told. Quickly bound and gagged, the sentry watched a score or more dark figures flit through the gate and burst into the guardhouse. They pointed pistols at the sergeant of the guard and locked...
From the West Flowery Gate to the Well of the Pearl Concubine, the Forbidden City is crammed with a sequence of halls, austere courtyards, and a garland of delicate gardens. Here emperors strutted on stiltlike shoes, empresses basked under peacock fans, concubines lustered their hair with elephant dung, and eunuchs plotted palace intrigues...
Horn bugles sounded shrilly as the police battered at the main gate, and from the walls archers and men with slingshots attacked them with arrows and stones. Bursting into the courtyard of the math, they found Pagala Baba, dressed in animal skins, sitting on a lotus-shaped throne, waving a piece of red cloth and shouting, "Let blood flow!" Sadhus armed with spears, tridents and heavy two-handed swords forced the police back, leaving one cop and two sadhns dead...
...Gate for Eight. Dr. Curtis saw 31 expectant fathers with emotional problems, sent to him by the medics handling sick call. Most of the fathers were anticipating a first child, but some were up to their third or fourth or more. He separated the men into Group A, with 17 cases whose problems he rated as serious (seven of the men were unmarried), and Group B, with 14 men whose difficulties were similar in kind but minor in degree. In addition, he compared these groups with 24 expectant fathers who were not referred to him and were supposedly normal-though...