Word: gatepost
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...most civilized guerrillas on earth. At army headquarters in Manerplaw, deep in the jungle of Burma, enlisted men maintain neat parade grounds, teak officers' quarters, even the occasional flower bed of marigolds and roses. Bugles sound morning reveille, and new recruits march to target practice under a gatepost that carries a black-lettered sign, GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH. Even in Komura, a muddy labyrinth of trenches and bunkers 100 miles south, where some 500 Karen soldiers have been trapped in battle for months with the Burmese army, the men are high-minded. The only pinups...
...fence with a pair of wire cutters, a crude ladder he had fashioned and an odd device made of a toothbrush taped to one end of a broom handle. Knowing that any sudden movement of the fence would set off an electric alarm, he propped the ladder near a gatepost for added support. He shinnied up and, with his hand as steady as a surgeon's, used his broom-handle-toothbrush apparatus to disconnect the alarm system. Then he cut through some strands of barbed wire. With a final leap, Christopher Boyce, 26, a spy convicted...
...attack on the ambassador's residence, the other five Palestinians made an equally inept attempt to blow up an empty Israeli Viscount airliner at Nicosia airport. They arrived in a blue Dodge Colt and a Land-Rover. As the Colt headed for the tarmac, it crashed into a gatepost. One of its two occupants fled through a field, but the other attacked a police guard by hitting him on the head with a hand grenade. The impact of the blow dislodged the grenade pin; the young guerrilla, afraid that he was going to blow himself up, threw the grenade...
...family left their black limousines, fell in behind the restless capers of Black Jack and the slow-turning wheels of the caisson. Behind them strode President Johnson, and his wife. Next, a limousine carrying Caroline and John cruised out the gate. Then the White House driveway filled, gatepost to gatepost, with a moving mass. Like a slow, powerful river, it poured out onto Pennsylvania Avenue, and not until then did the makeup of that seemingly formless crowd come clear...
...vehicle skimmed past the moon at a distance of 4,300 miles, then moved on into space, gradually slowing down. As it passed. Lunik III was deflected by the moon's gravity, which made it veer in the moon's direction, like a child swinging on a gatepost. But the tug was not enough to make it curve sharply and start right back. Instead, it swung out 67,000 miles beyond the moon's orbit (and 292,000 miles from the earth); then it started slowly back. By this time the moon, traveling on its own orbit...