Word: cage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trio was broken up for five days. The Japs locked Comptroller Bowen in a bamboo cage not wide or long enough to lie down in while they questioned, threatened and kicked him (they thought he could tell them where the medical college had hidden its famed archeological relic, the bones of Peiping Man, presumably so they could present them to the Emperor. Bowen did not know...
...Washington's Export-Import Bank had a cashier's cage, foreign nationals would have been queued up there last week. With Lend-Lease ended (see NA TIONAL AFFAIRS), the borrowers were figuratively standing in front of the Export- Import Bank's 64 desks, hat in hand...
Having done their duty by Emmy, the German lieutenant colonel and his orderly went off to a prisoner-of-war cage...
...them originally as Wickwire Spencer Steel Co. advertise ments. Most of Caricaturist Artzybasheff's 32 imaginative, humorous, smoothly competent wash drawings show the Axis coming out second best against U.S. industrial might. In Artzybasheff's fancy: ¶A crisscross pattern of steel wire becomes a cage for three hoary, gaping primates with the faces of Mussolini, Hitler and Tojo...
...soldiers in Europe, war's end came variously, and at various times. For some it ended long ago-at Dunkirk, at Salerno, in Normandy, in the Ardennes, at many an unsung roadside. But for each survivor the war ended on the day when the prisoners' cage was opened or the field ahead no longer spat death...