Word: gately
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When dawn came, the marines seemed to draw encouragement from the sight of the three high-speed transports which had accompanied us, the two destroyers which stood in close to Wolmi, and the three rocket craft resting in a half-moon formation. "Lower the stern gate," barked a loudspeaker. The marines scrambled back to the landing craft; the low barrier separating the LSD's welldeck from the sea outside was cranked down. Slowly the tankand troop-laden LSUs backed stern first into the open...
Whatever did it, Willie had considerable consolation. His 45% share ($93,000) of the record-breaking (for featherweights) gate of $262,150 would more than take care of his doctor bills. And Willie would be back for a crack at Saddler again this winter...
...argued: a statement on U.S. policy in the Pacific was beyond MacArthur's authority, and furthermore MacArthur was full of hot air. The U.S. had not held Formosa during World War II, Acheson argued,* and the U.S. had not been forced then to fall back on the Golden Gate. But primarily, Acheson deplored the timing. At that very moment, he reminded the group, the State Department was trying to get the United Nations, despite Malik, to adopt the neutralizing of Formosa as U.N.'s own formal policy. Warren Austin appeared to be making some progress along that line...
That was all, but in exactly 60 seconds, a Coast Guard patrol boat was moving seaward; soon a Dunkirk-like fleet of 30 Army tugs, naval auxiliary craft, Coast Guard vessels and fishing boats were heading through the Golden Gate...
MILES OFF THE GOLDEN [GATE] BRIDGE . . . NEED EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE...