Word: gates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Only we still had to jump the fence, and I want to see the day we can all go through the gate...
...SNCC Office, water running from his sodden trousers, his face and hands dried by the long run from the pool. He had picked up two of his boys. The three had vaulted the fence, taken a dip in the forbidden pool, and exited by the front gate under the gaping, ineffectual stares of the whites...
...Ibis, a rare bronze variety of Threskiornis aethiopica, has been missed before but never for so long a time. American Airlines pilot Edwin Walter, who saw the bird winging westward over the Golden Gate as he was preparing to land, said "it looked happy though homesick." Walter took several photographs of it from a cockpit window...
...antiaircraft weapons. At length the men started to get out and move about in groups of two and three, never far from their vehicles. Latrine screens were set up. One G.I. began giving haircuts to his buddies. At one point, Lieut. Fields himself marched up to the Communist lift-gate, raised it, got back in his truck and ordered his driver to go on through. But just as his truck inched across the line, two Russian personnel carriers drew up and blocked Fields's path. This stopped the Americans again...
...driver did not know the way, and for ten tortured minutes they rode around aimlessly. Finally Chou asked to be taken to the embassy of Red China's newer enemy-the Soviet Union. That happened to be just around the corner. Chou excitedly jumped out, found the front gate locked, and scrambled over the seven-foot concrete wall-leaving behind a startled, unpaid taxi driver. Inside the embassy the Russians were equally surprised. Peking was a "terrible place," Chou said. He had decided to escape from Red China because of the "suffocating atmosphere" of Communism. He was willing...