Word: cage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bridgehouse Prison, Powell's grilling filled a half-dozen notebooks. Japanese, who take for granted their own correspondents are spies, refused to believe he was not one. In Cell No. 5, a 12-by-18-ft. cage with six-inch bars, he was dumped among 40 prisoners-consumptives, lepers, syphilitics, even a few Japanese. Eaten alive by lice, they tried to keep warm by crowding five or six together under one filthy blanket. Rations were rice, occasionally embellished by fish heads and seaweed. Forbidden to talk to each other, the prisoners were compelled to sit on the floor...
...this year's total income he forks up the balance; if more, the Treasury rebates to him. Nobody loses, but men going from high-paying jobs into the armed services, or forced out of work by priorities and the like can get out of the nightmare squirrel cage of paying high taxes for nearly a year more. And come a post-war depression, workers with deflated pay envelopes would benefit...
...Nations," with the millions of India joined with the millions of China, to replace the broken rule of the white man in the Far East. Beyond that Nehru dreams and believes that an India, freed from "the perfect peace of the grave and the absolute safety of a cage," can take her place in a world order or world federation, welcoming the white man's science and know-how, friendly to Soviet Russia, a partner with the Anglo-American federation in bringing peace and order to the world...
...remodeled structure first saw service on July 24, when it was the scene of the graduation of the latest class of the Navy Supply Corpa School. The Cage has also now potentially one of the finest ballroom floors in the Greater Boston Area...
However, rebuilding by the Supply Corps of the interior of Cary Cage has recently been completed to adapt the building for an assembly and lecture hall. The Cage, completely transformed, has newly redecorated walls, a wooden floor over what formerly was hard-dirt, and a speaker's platform and restrum...