Word: cage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dispatched to the township of Port Lincoln, 170 miles west of Adelaide, Australia. From there he was to sail 20 miles out into the gulf in company of Underwater Photographers Ron and Valerie Taylor and be lowered over the side of a ship in a special steel mesh cage. Rizzo's role, doubling for one of the film's leading actors, was simply to persevere while a great white shark tried to trash...
...than 24, Rizzo's diminutive height would make the real fish look bigger. Rizzo understood all this. He did not count, however, on the fervor of the great white. Beginning his first descent, he watched one shark attack the Taylors' boat. Vexed, it sideswiped Rizzo, ripped his cage from its cable and took it to the bottom. Carl shot out of the water and headed for cover...
Since the collapse of the Farrell Bubble in a windstorm in December 1973, the track team has been forced to spend the indoor season in small, dusty Briggs Cage. Okerman notes that it is especially important for a New England school to have a good indoor facility because the indoor season here lasts from November to the end of March...
...regularly throughout the winter months. But "nobody wants to come down to Briggs to work out," he says. In fact, Okerman claims some of the injuries suffered by runners on the track team this winter may have been caused by the poor quality of the dirt track in Briggs Cage...
...American policy-makers like Nixon and Kissinger, the men who engineered the Christmas bombing of Hanoi in 1972. And if the war has not taught us to distinguish policy-makers from those who carry out their plans, we should not screen out members of the Phoenix project or tiger-cage guards until the same standards have been applied to their American advisers, American soldiers who committed atrocities, or American pilots who bombed harmless villages...