Word: gates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...captives were dead. One Red prisoner admitted that he knew the actual location of their graves and offered himself as a guide. Followed by two battalions, Colonel Call flew in a helicopter to the spot indicated by the prisoner. Sure enough, there was a neat graveyard with a white gate. The helicopter sat down on a paddy near the graves. Suddenly shots rang out. Both pilots were slightly wounded, but Call and Chaplain Aubrey Smith made it back to the chopper, and the chaplain fired several shots at the enemy. "I was carried away," he explained...
...mile Irish Sweeps Derby by a lazy-loping four lengths, making him the first horse in history to capture both the English and Irish Derbies; in Curragh, Ireland. A 4-7 favorite, the three-year-old colt watched the rest of the field run away at the gate, was third from last in the 19-horse field after the first two furlongs, then easily swept into the lead with a furlong-and-a-half to go. The $149,730 victory brought Santa's winnings to $376,423 this year-and meant a present of $140,000 to each...
Although most hockey games and a few of the more important basketball and swimming contests are also expected to fall in this category, Cliffies will have unrestricted admission to more than 40 events that require a ticket at the gate...
...more than the Treasury is needed, so they would create a great National Square that gives a distinguished destination for the avenue, provides access through a monumental gate to the White House grounds, and offers a car-free plaza for people afoot. Halfway between there and the Capitol, they take advantage of the fact that the National Gallery and the Archives Building now sit facing each other unrelatedly on opposite sides of the avenue, and would create another big Market Square that gives vistas of the façades of both buildings...
That Man from Rio. Sssh. Out of a shadow a shadow glides, a sinister shape that stands up like a man but treads as softly as a jaguar. Stealthily the figure slips past the guard as he closes the main gate of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris; silently the figure vanishes along an aisle. Some minutes later the museum guard hears the crash of shattering glass, and away he runs to find out who is stealing what. Some minutes after that the police stand pondering a curious coincidence. The object stolen from the museum...