Now to the wordplay. Commentators and bloggers often use the word "gate" when a politician is accused of trying to hide the truth.

VOA: special.2011.07.16

The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and the Eiffel Tower in Paris are also expected to go dark.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Just inside the gate was a large house used by the president and his family.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

The gate is lifted, the cow is released and the next cow enters.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate!

VOA: special.2011.02.06

And then feeling that sort of sense of calm that comes as soon as you push out of the gate."

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

"Micheletti really feels he is the sentinel at the gate, and that he is representing Western values,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"Namely,the Golden Gate Bridge." "And I used to watch the ships go out over the horizon.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

The women's marathon opens the final day of competition, but that 42.2 kilometer race, which begins and ends at the historic Brandenburg Gate, is only the beginnaing.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

She says,'we went to visit, but have not been able to see our relatives.' She said relatives had only been allowed to drop off food at the gate and leave.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

This anniversary is about remembering the past. And as the dominoes run in a line from Potsdamer Platz, past Brandenburg Gate to the nearby parliament, they once again divide the city, even if only briefly.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Iraqi police said that a bomb, hidden near the front gate of the Rasheed market in the Dora district of Baghdad, went off as trucks loaded with fruits and vegetables were waiting to enter the market to unload.

VOA: standard.2009.06.01