Word: gates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the smoke-blackened gate of the giant steelworks in the Czech town of Pilsen, two notable emblems stand side by side. One is the world-renowned trademark of the century-old firm of Skoda, a winged arrow in a circle. The other is the red star of Communism. The famed plant that munitioned Central Europe's armies through two world wars is now the Skoda Lenin Works, a smoking, clanging symbol of a bold Russian ambition: to bind together all the productive skills of the seven East European satellites into one Moscow-managed economic community...
...mild June weather, people strolled around the Diet building: the young men in white shirts without jackets, the girls in their summer dresses. One solitary uniformed guard stood at the Diet gate where thousands fought last week, but no attempt was made to keep people...
Dear Students. For a start, a student mob stormed Kishi's Tokyo residence, where 500 police waited nervously under a green flag reading "Dear Students, Please Do Not Enter." The mob pulled down an iron gate, temporarily captured five riot trucks and launched a lusty exchange of stickwork that left 83 policemen and 20 students injured. Next targets were the railway stations, where the students joined the big Red-tainted labor union Sohyo in setting up a general strike for the following morning. The method: strangling commuter traffic by kidnaping motormen...
Once inside the castle gate Mata'd never vacillate...
...gate, Bally Ache bolted, as expected, to an early lead. Tompion challenged at the half, then went into one of his strange sulks and faded to fourth. As ordered, Hartack bided his time until he found the spot: in the far turn he put the whip to Venetian Way and blasted past Bally Ache to the lead. The stretch run was a piece of cake, but Hartack did not let up until Venetian Way, the outsider, had run off with the 86th Kentucky Derby by 3½ lengths...