Word: cage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been a bird in a cage, first experienced freedom," said Japan's Emperor Hirohito about his one trip abroad 50 years ago, when he was crown prince. Those six months in Europe influenced him profoundly; since then he has lived at home in Occidental style, sleeping in a bed instead of on a floor mat and wearing Western clothes. Last week his chamberlain brought news that Premier Eisaku Sato's Cabinet had approved Hirohito's plans for an 18-day European trip beginning next September-the first time a reigning Emperor will have left the country...
...that Harvard's momentum had vanished by the time B. U. was at full strength, but the Crimson surprised everyone with the tying goal at 14:15 of the period. Billy Corkery out-skated the Terrier defense, drew the B. U. goalie out of the net, and circling the cage, passed out to Dave Hynes. Hynes whipped the puck into the empty cage, and Harvard was back in the game...
...ironic that Robert van Leer's description of the Viet Cong torture of an American soldier is precisely the same as the mode of torture (a cage of starving rats placed over a person's head) described in Orwell...
...American firm is ?he ?? to begin construction this month of three new blocks of isolation cells on the penal island of Con Son. Each of the three blocks will contain ?? ?ells. The new construction will allow Con Son officials to drastically increase the number of prisoners held under "tiger cage" conditions, one American who is familiar with the project claims...
Congressman Anderson wrote to President Nixon following that visit: "The Tiger Cage imprisonment of human beings and the savage mistreatment of these prisoners are outrageous contradictions to the minimal standards of political decency we, as a free American people, should establish as a condition of our aid and friendship to any nation...