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Fifty miles off the north coast of Sicily, the dying volcano of Stromboli juts 3,000 feet out of the tepid Tyrrhenian. Italians call its five square miles l'isola nera (the black island), remember that in ancient days its crater was known as the gateway to purgatory...
...General Chen Yi bore down across the flatlands of the Yangtze delta. In the second week of the South China offensive the Reds' pace had slowed down somewhat, but they triumphantly reported eight Nationalist armies crushed and trapped between the Yangtze and the coast. Hangchow, last coastal railroad gateway to the south, was deserted and lay open to the conquerors. Red armies also bore down on Shanghai...
June 27, 1944 (at Sachsenhausen). "A Ukrainian boy of 19 was hanged before the gateway . . . last night. [He] had been employed in the shoe factory. There he had taken two leather bags and cut shoe soles out of them. For which he was now to have 50 blows and then be hanged...
...Providing the gateway to an empire rich in gold and diamonds...
Meanwhile, the railroad reached Anapolis and the town became the gateway to Brazil's rapidly growing west. Now Anapolis, with 15,000 rough-&-ready, gun-toting citizens, is as full of gusty confidence as west Texas. In the hinterland, droves of farmers are rushing in to buy up cheap land, plant corn, rice and beans...