Word: cage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strange, monkey-like animal, probably the most sophisticated exponent of his species, is well acquainted with all the luxuries of air and ocean travel. He is now comfortably settled in Cambridge, happy with the eggs in his cage which he can squash and lap up at will...
...Writer Charles J. V. Murphy, hustled to the office of LIFE Managing Editor John Billings. On his desk slight, boyish Photographer Scherman deposited: one tube of tooth paste, one tube of shaving cream, two rolls of surgical gauze. He looked like the cat that had just swallowed a whole cage of canaries...
...found a baby giant panda, replete with tender bamboo shoots, logily sitting on a log, bagged her, sold her to U.S. rarity-trappers. Third of the seven live pandas to enter the U.S., the five-week-old Bei-Shung (white bear) became Pandora of The Bronx Zoo. In her cage she prowled and played and delicately nibbled asparagus tips, a conscious comic who put even sophisticates in stitches with her improvised routines...
...Jackson (alias Jacques Mornard) has been convicted of Trotsky's murder, is in close custody in Mexico City jail awaiting sentence, while Mexican authorities look further into the dark question of Stalinist instigation. Jackson's cell is specially constructed, has steel bars like a tiger's cage. His onetime very good friend, Sylvia Ageloff, was acquitted of complicity, left Mexico...
From this juncture the camera frequently scans pages from the Centuries. Most favored prophecy: "The young lion will conquer the old one upon the field in a single combat. He will pierce his eye in a golden cage, who will then die a dreadful death." This meant nothing until Henry II died after a joust with the Count of Montgomery. A lance penetrated his golden visor, pierced his eye. That established Nostradamus as a prophet...