Word: caged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the crowded streets of Accra, borne in a cage like an animal, a onetime ranking member of Ghana's dreaded security service was carried by police. Caught in nearby Nigeria and flown to Accra on a Ghana air force plane, he was on his way to prison-and almost surely to death. The cage in which he rode had been especially designed and constructed to contain a greater prize: the erstwhile Ghanaian ruler, Kwame Nkrumah, who before his overthrow a year ago, called himself "the Christ of our day" and "the Conqueror of imperialism...
...Beerbohm thought that she shed an aura of lurid supernaturalness. Dumas the elder described her voice as "a spring that ripples and leaps over golden pebbles." One awed critic wrote that watching her was as fascinating as watching a wild animal in a cage. She herself apparently felt like a great tigress stalking among fluttering doves; she always claimed that she once tried to persuade a famous surgeon to graft a tiger's tail to her spine so that she could lash it about when she got angry. To her fans, she was known as "Sarah the Divine...
Radcliffe will provide buses -- or taxis -- from Hilles Library to Carey Cage during exam period, the Dean's Office announced yesterday. The buses will run each day except Thursdays and Saturdays, when no tests are scheduled in Carey. The buses will leave Hilles on the Garden St. side at 8:40 a.m. and 1:40 p.m., and will return at 12:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. The Dean's Office will supply taxis when there aren't enough girls to fill...
Then Harvard began to sweep the running events, destroying the hopes of Northeastern's strong cross-country veterans. The Crimson's David McKelvey flashed to a 1:12.7 in the 600-yard run, just .2 second off his Brigg's Cage record set the weekend before...
...Crimson killed two-and-a-half minutes of the penalty before Phil O'Connell put a rebound off the back boards at the far side of the cage, with Turcotte and John Leger getting assists...