Word: gates
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...greeting to the ancient, holy-and bitterly divided-city. He never got the chance, for the Pope-accustomed to the Byzantine orderliness of Vatican protocol-was brutally brought face to face with some unexpected realities of modern life. When the papal entourage wheeled into the square outside the Damascus Gate, a wave of humanity broke through the guards and surrounded the Pope's car. Newsmen, predictably, were in the lead, but priests, nuns, children, legionnaires and tourists were swept along by the tide. For nearly 30 minutes, the mob blocked the way-cheering so loudly that startled Israelis even...
Just before he reached the gate, the Pope squeezed out of his car and was immediately hemmed in against his guards by nearly 5,000 people. It was a friendly mob-roaring out "Long live the Pope" in a score of languages, pelting him with cologne-scented water from the Jordan-but the tough legionnaires treated it like an Israeli attack force. Swinging rifle butts and even olive branches snatched from waiting children, the soldiers tried to clear a path so the Pope could walk in prayer along the shabby, bazaar-littered Via Dolorosa, venerated as the street along which...
...latest advance in ulcer surgery is still simpler, less mutilating, and therefore "more elegant" by Dr. Moore's definition. This consists of "pyloroplasty," or widening the gate valve between stomach and duodenum by slitting its muscular ring, or "sphincter" (fourth diagram). The tissue is stretched, then the slit is closed at right angles. Such operations (there are several variants) had been around since 1886, but not until 1947 did Dr. Joseph Weinberg of the Long Beach (Calif.) VA Hospital try the promising combination of vagotomy and pyloroplasty. A vagotomy by itself tends to make the stomach flaccid so that...
...NORTH GATE by Joyce Carol Oates. 253 pages. Vanguard...
...Giants' seventh sellout in seven home games, giving them estimated gate receipts of $2,200,000 v. $3,000,000 for the baseball Yankees in 68 home dates last season...