Word: caged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortunate enough to have been one of the audience at the Rockwell Cage when Dr. Vannevar Bush made the statement you quoted.* I sincerely hope he is right in his optimism, but the slide rule he used for his computations must have slipped quite...
...would be 1.10²ººX2, or slightly under two persons per square mile, including deserts and oceans. The total would be less than one-sixth of the actual population of today, and less than one-millionth of the gruesome pile, packed as we were in the Rockwell Cage but 15 layers deep, envisaged by Dr. Bush...
...Voice," he said, he had heard that a fascist war criminal was being jailed by the U.S. "I am the kind of man," explained Berman, "who believes everything that comes from abroad." The suave Kio stood ready to show how unwise that was. Several workmen rolled a big cage into the ring. Inside was Adolf Hitler. Mumbling his magic formula, Kio lowered what he explained was "not an iron, but a silken curtain." When the curtain rose once more, the workers had been moved inside the cage, and outside, mocking them, stood Hitler. On hand to congratulate...
...forgotten that he was also expected to express "optimism." The curtain was once more lowered and raised. This time Churchill, Hitler and the U.S. capitalist were inside the cage, and the workers wheeled it out. "That," intoned Kio grimly, "is the way it will be when the people's patience bursts-and forever...
...court will meet at 1:30 p.m. Friday in Carpenter Hall D, next to Briggs Cage. Civilians will be permitted to watch the proceedings...