Word: gates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stadium's north end, three of the five steel doors leading out were still inexplicably closed. One theory was that the gate attendants had deserted their posts to watch the game's climax. Rank upon rank of screaming, struggling humanity crashed against the steel until the doors burst open and the mob surged over the crushed bodies in the corridors. Strips of skin clung to the walls, and in places the corpses were six deep. The death toll at the gates alone was 200. Outside, the rioting crowd rolled on through the streets, smashing windows and burning vehicles...
...main street, the Koblenzer Strasse, is part of the north-south highway from Cologne to Coblenz, and is perpetually jammed by 36,000 trucks and cars a day that must slow to a crawl to squeeze through the 18th century Koblenzer Gate in the middle of town. The 20,000 cars a day that travel east or west through Bonn have to cross a railroad line that bisects the city; at three level crossings the gates are closed for 360 trains a day, or an average of 20 minutes each hour. Capital traffic is also disrupted by a flock...
...ever a feller needed a friend, it was Willie. And sure enough, a guardian angel appeared: Jacob Shemano, 51, president of San Francisco's Golden Gate National Bank. Jake Shemano looks more like a Hollywood Buddha than a banker; he favors green velvet shirts, smokes English Ovals like he was trying to give up Bantron, and originally became a good friend of Willie Mays, he explains, because "I am a very athletically inclined person myself." By mid-1963, he had talked Mays into depositing every cent of his $105,000 salary into the trust department of Golden Gate National...
...field of twelve horses broke from the gate and swept around the first turn. Hartack kept the Dancer under a tight rein. Mr. Brick, a 16 to 1 long shot, set the pace through the backstretch; Hill Rise was sixth, the Dancer seventh. Then Hartack glanced to his right, saw Shoemaker flick his reins to urge Hill Rise forward. That was the signal. Hartack clucked to Northern Dancer, and in one wonderful burst of speed, the little colt bolted past Hill Rise, past Mr. Brick, past everybody, and into the clear. Turning for home, the Dancer had a two-length...
...Lyndon Johnson in the matter of visibility. Last week, after a fast round of golf at suburban Maryland's Burning Tree Golf Club, Johnson entertained a king, tossed out the opening-day ball for the Washington Senators, popped out of the White House to reach through the southeast gate and shake hands with tourists, in a single day made four speeches totaling some 7,000 words, and presided at not one but two news conferences...