Word: caged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instead to kindly old Miss Elizabeth T. Droppers at the main reference desk. If she can be convinced that your motives are pure, she will take from its secret hook the key to the XR cage, disappear into a distant elevator, and reemerge eventually with the juicy morsel. After a stern warning not to mark any pages or remove any pictures, the forbidden fruit is yours to enjoy for as long as you like--provided you don't try to take it out of the main reading room...
...says Louis A. Sassow, acting head of Reference and Circulation, "those books are in the XR cage primarily to protect them from theft and mutilation...
What is it about a book that lands it in the XR cage? The answer lies beyond the tiny locker-room, just past the grimy sink inside the bronze vault fitted for two padlocks and perhaps a bolt...
...books, which total about 2000 (no one seems to count) line both sides of a dimly-lit iron cage. The binding of each volume bears the pure white call-letters "XR" and a mysterious number (no one seems to know what they mean...
...world goes by my cage and never sees...