Word: portal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first he described as an "extended portal" underpass, because its eastern entrance is located about 400 feet from the intersection so that frontage roads used for turning can converge near the Boat House. Jackson and Moreland recommended this underpass, estimating its cost...
...release." A phone message went to the Brigham even as the patrolman's lifeless body was wheeled into an operating room. There Drs. Nathan Couch and Anthony Monaco made a long vertical incision on the right side of the abdomen. Within three minutes they cut down to the portal vein, which drains into the liver; they then injected a frigid solution to cool the precooled liver down still more. They completed their work in 24 minutes and dropped the liver into a cold saline solution in a sterilized container...
...forth waiting for the expected passengers, seasonal workers who commute to their jobs in the vineyards. But scarcely a soul showed up at the station, for in Sanlucar and nearby Jerez de la Frontera 3,900 workers were out on strike for a $2.50 daily wage (a 50? boost), portal-to-portal pay between the vineyard and home, and two-not one-daily cigars, the slang word for the workers' traditional 20-minute siesta...
...rhythmically up and down, generating a subtle, but unmistakable aura of coitus. Jockeying back and forth into view were Jacques Tati and Mme. de Gaulle playing mudgutter across the north transept of Chartres Cathedral. At the end of each round, the loser had to run nude through the south portal and roll in the snow before a crowd of lepers. With that lovely timing for which he is worshipped, Quouguou waits until the lepers have drawn very close to the writhing figure of M. Tati, their bells clanging. Then he cuts abruptly to the bells of the church. We follow...
...teatime, the black family limousine rolled up to the White House portal, and a tanned Mamie Eisenhower, in a mottled print dress, alighted for her first homecoming in a year and a day. "Hello, Bruce," said the former First Lady to the doorman. She hailed a covey of capital newspaperwomen, then shook hands with her hostess Jackie, ashimmer in a green shantung sheath. After a peek at the refurbished Red Room, Mamie sat down in the Oval Room over raspberry tarts and tea with seven other senior leaguers working on a $30 million drive for the National Culture Center, hopefully...