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Word: cage (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pirate starter and winner Candelaria fought off a sore back, a sore shoulder, and pulled rib cage muscles to inflict real pain on the Orioles. Helped by two double plays, he held the Birds, who got the leadoff man on base 4 times, in check for six strong innings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pirates Shutout Orioles, 4-0 Carry Series to Game Seven | 10/17/1979 | See Source »

...Athletics Department is considering renovating and expanding the Indoor Athletic Building (IAB), providing a moveable floor for the University hockey rink and renovating Briggs Cage, John P. Reardon, Jr., director of Athletics, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Officials Consider Renovating IAB Facilities, Briggs Cage | 10/12/1979 | See Source »

Aberle and Burns are about to complete five hours of work. Giving the cavern a last look, they scramble to a steel escape ladder that climbs straight up, 110 ft., through a hole bored in solid schist. Shifting from that ladder to a creaky elevator cage, they hoist themselves higher still. Beside the cage as it moves upward-to a mere 5,600 ft. below the earth's surface-water streams down the timbers used to shore up the shaft, acting as both lubricant and fire preventive. In the hot shaft it sounds, and feels, like a tropical rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In South Dakota: Gold Diggers of '79 | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...skill that grows from aptitude and experience. "There's quite a few guys working their butts off and not making any money," says Burns. The alternative to working on a contract team is to hire out at a flat $7.50 an hour in support jobs like motorman or cage operator. Adds Burns: "If you're going to mine gold, you might as well make money at it." Aberle agrees. But as they call it a day after 7½ hrs. underground and start on the regular 40-min. commute upward to the surface, he ponders some roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In South Dakota: Gold Diggers of '79 | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

Even in two trips a newcomer picks up a good deal of lore. Pigeon-toed prints usually mean a man is running. You can tell which predator killed an animal by the way the carcass was entered: dogs and wolves eat through the back, lions enter through the rib cage. An old man's tracks tend to be more regular than a young man's. Because shoes conform to a man's feet, you can later identify in court the feet that made a track, even if the shoes used during the crime were thrown away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Tracks in the Desert | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

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