Word: cage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crate, with a wandering look in his eye and ears laid back, like a mute trying to make a speech. . . . The hyena dribbled, ate, vomited, and ate again; no sickness, still less any discomfort could diminish his voracity. The panther lay huddled in a corner of her cage, with staring fur and a look of mystery in her eyes. . . . Can the sufferings of animals reveal what is going on in their dim souls...
...disastrous and perhaps, over a period of weeks, big shells could smash away the Rock's friable limestone-of which every splinter becomes a missile when a shell explodes-to expose the defenders' guns to ultimate destruction. If that should happen, Benito Mussolini would escape his Mediterranean cage...
...hard-pressed Allies exchanged a few sharp jolts with him in northern Italy, Libya, Eritrea. The British clamped shut, at Gibraltar and Suez, the gates of their Mediterranean cage for Mussolini. This action cut off Italian East Africa from Rome. The Allies rounded up throughout the world such Italian merchant ships as did not scuttle themselves or hole up in neutral ports, including the Umbria en route to Eritrea through the Red Sea with 5,000 tons of air bombs and thousands of bags of cement...
...Spaniards, and across the Strait, Spanish demonstrators last week shouted, "Gibraltar for Spain!" Just east of Tangier along the coast in Spanish Morocco loomed great coastal guns installed there for Spain by Germany, breasting the British guns on Gibraltar. Opening the western gate of her Mediterranean cage is one of Italy's prime aspirations, and the sidling maneuvers last week of Italian submarines (some of which put into Spanish ports) and planes made it look like an early objective, an easier one without the French Fleet to aid the British...
...Green has the largest cage n the country, giving its squad a chance to work as effectively indoors as out. There is a 100-yard straightaway, and the circumference approximates that of the outdoor tracks. The infield, too, is sufficiently large to permit jumpers, vaulters, and weight men to work without get ting in each other...