Word: cage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 200 laps, and a couple more to be safe, smudge-faced Mauri Rose drove the winning car into the wire-enclosed victory cage. The seat of his pants had worn out from the bouncing he had taken. He had won the race and 35% of the $31,450 prize money the car had earned...
...white, he thought, starting up--in all the years, though, he hadn't learned a satisfactory way to climb them. Too low, and yet to much set-back for two-at-a-time, but he arrived at the top, and started to push in. Passing the man in the cage he stopped; it reminded him of coming out again, with the book. What book? Why get it? You don't need it, he realized. You don't need any books at all. Vag, you dumb bastard, after the orals there's nothing more, you're done, you don't need...
...body wiggle behind his swing. Musial himself blamed his slump on too much golf during the winter and spring; he put his golf clubs into the closet. A slim, conscientious player, who at 26 earns about $27,000 a year, Musial spent hours in the batting cage...
Torment (Oxford Films) and A Cage of Nightingales (Lopert), both European films, tell in schoolboy terms of an old, bitter, incurable conflict: the free, self-responsible, self-governing spirit v. authority...
...Cage of Nightingales, made in France, the central character is a young teacher (French Comedian Noël-Noël) who gets a job in a boys' reform school. Ruled over by boneheaded authoritarians and worse, the boys are well on their way towards becoming neurotics or criminals. Cage is simply the story, told with wisdom and humor, of how the new teacher opposes his bosses and wins over his pupils with the unpretentious methods of good sense, kindliness, and a talent for interesting children in singing. The picture is never as ambitious or exciting as the best...