Word: cage
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gluttonous insect so Jiard to control is that it has lacked natural enemies. It was imported from Europe to Massachusetts in 1869 by Leopold Trouvelot, a misguided naturalist who hoped to crossbreed the hardy moths with silkworms and start a new textile industry. Instead, when the bugs escaped their cage, he started a spreading plague. Now virtually all of New England and New Jersey, plus parts of New York and Pennsylvania, are infested by the insatiable insects. Since female moths lay their eggs not only on trees and rocks but also on vacationers' campers and trailers...
...From time to time the camera leaves the animals to visit their creator, a young and pretty child who rebels against her antifeminist era with quill pen and paintbox. Here, too, all is pantomime; the ticking of the clock, the stern, wordless parents, the rustle of mice in a cage all express volumes...
Like all teachers, he has some problem students, but he blames himself for the collection of scars on his hands and arms. "Once I had a sick tiger," he recalls, "and crawled into his cage to push him over so the doctor could give him a shot of penicillin. He wasn't as sick as I thought. When I rolled him over, he bit my hand. I had to punch him in the nose to make him let go. I went to the hospital instead...
...architects and planning committee have also been considering how to make better use of existing facilities. Other plans mentioned Tuesday night were astro-turfing the Stadium field, putting indoor tennis courts in Briggs Cage and converting the floor of Memorial Hall into several basketball courts...
...visiting doctors watched as members of a surgical team took their places around the operating table. With confidence born of experience, the surgeons made a vertical incision from the patient's collarbone to his diaphragm, sawed through his breastbone and then, using a framelike mechanism, spread the rib cage and exposed the pericardium, or heart...