Word: gating
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...church bells rang out at last on Friday morning, as the sun came up and the men left the church that had been their haven for five weeks. They had to crumple low to pass through the squat Gate of Humility, a large door reduced to a tiny entryway during the time of the Turkish Empire to prevent looters from driving carts inside the church to carry off their booty. Some of the men waved and cheered a victory; others knelt to pray. A man with bullet wounds came out on a stretcher. All passed through metal detectors. U.S. embassy...
...stripping is a man giving money to a woman in exchange for a sexual feeling. The burlesque thing has very little to do with that." Michelle Carr, who founded Los Angeles' Velvet Hammer in 1995, puts it another way: "Go to a strip club, and everyone out of the gate looks exactly the same. What we get is a chance to express ourselves creatively...
...When Suu Kyi does walk through her sky blue metal gate, Burma's ailments won't be magically healed. Most are chronic and beyond the scope of one woman?even an icon like Suu Kyi?to cure. The country is devoid of the institutions needed to build a civil society: a democratic legislature, a functioning bureaucracy and education and health systems, an independent judiciary, a free press. But Suu Kyi stands at the very least as a symbol of hope. In the markets, tea shops and offices of the crumbling capital, Rangoon, the whispered conversations about politics now contain wisps...
...HUPD officer took a report at Johnston Gate from an individual who reported being followed by a stranger...
...reached the gate of Quincy House, the point of our departure and the point of our sad return...