Word: gating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maneuvering was carefully planned, and showed a cunning recognition of ways to achieve substantial effects in the West with means-a dismantled frontier gate, the freeing of a William Oatis-which neither cost them much nor relaxed their grip on power. It was all neatly timed: the French were fumbling in disorder; Sir Winston Churchill talked nostalgically of "a new Locarno"; the U.S. Administration, still trying to come to grips with the realities of responsibility, was pinned between the belief that it must seize the initiative from Moscow and the fear that it is not smart enough to avoid falling...
Waterhoses & Wails. U.S. guards, abashed and jittery, stepped back. Stolid Korean police took their place. A few girls fainted and collapsed on the roadway. Others threw themselves down, kicking and screaming. The mob surged toward the gate, the gatepost snapped, and the schoolgirls poured into the compound. For a moment they milled about aimlessly. Then the leaders led them down the street toward Eighth Army headquarters...
...Joseph Paul DiMaggio Jr., 38, onetime vice president in charge of batting, fielding and gate receipts for the New York Yankees, was appointed vice president in charge of public relations on the West Coast for Buitoni Foods Corp., makers of spaghetti and other pasta products...
...Pittsburgh, canny Branch Rickey, general manager of the Pirates, traded his most valuable gate attraction, Outfielder Ralph Kiner (and three other players) to the Chicago Cubs in exchange for six players and a bundle of cash. In Slugger Kiner, 30, the Cubs drew a home-run champion of the major leagues for the last six years, promptly put him to work in the same outfield with Hank Sauer who tied Kiner in homers last year (37). Chicago also picked up Kiner's $75,000 salary, second highest in baseball (after St. Louis Cardinal Stan Musial's). Rickey...
...Governor Christian A. Herter '15 arrived at the Johnson gate, next to Massachusetts Hall. Herter was escorted by scarlet-coated National Lancers of Massachusetts on horseback. This is part of a tradition dating back to the days when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts operated the University directly...