Word: caged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grade moron in 1927, declared criminally insane in 1936, and illegally confined without judicial review in a state asylum until 1960, when his half brother finally managed to win his release on a writ of habeas corpus. "Society labeled him as subhuman," declared Judge Heller, "placed him in a cage with genuine subhumans, drove him insane, and then used the insanity as an excuse for holding him indefinitely in an institution with few, if any, facilities for genuine treatment and rehabilitation of the mentally...
Because practices have been confined for six weeks to the limited facilities of Briggs Cage, Munro has no idea yet how good Wilson will be. The winningest coach in Harvard lax history will use his 17 years' experience and the next twelve days on the field to renovate him for the start of the Southern trip, which begins at Hofstra April 4 and will continue with Rutgers, Washington State and Loyola Colleges of Baltimore, and Adelphi. The Crimson will then come home to face M.I.T. in preparation for improving their tied-for-last finish in the seven-team Ivy race...
...electrically heated flight suit and enters the great, silvery dome of California's Mount Palomar Observatory. There, his tall, gangling frame seems suddenly reduced to Lilliputian proportions by the mammoth, 200-in. telescope that towers above him. An elevator hauls him slowly to a cylindrical observer's cage inside the telescope itself, and the dome's curved doors slide open to the cold mountain air. Perched high above the observatory floor, with classical music from an all-night Los Angeles radio station in the background, he checks his instruments, loads a camera and settles down...
...show that they weren't just repeating cliches, some of the students admitted that although drugs allow the mind to escape its habitual cage of civilization, they trap it immediately into a new set of thinking patterns and customs; a new social order with its own stylized mores. These traditions usually grow around a small group of friends who are in the habit of smoking together. The same comments, the same gestures, the same conversations, are repeated within pot cliques and grow into a ritual built around the great...
Yale was outplayed, and seemed to win the game by magic. The Crimson forwards swung away with the abandon of batting practice, and if you totalled the square feet of open cage Harvard shot at, you would have a very broad side of a barn...