Word: caged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tentatively, Mme. Nhu said, she planned to visit the U.S., though it would be like getting inside "a lion's cage." "I shall just talk extemporaneously," she said. "I am invited by the most important press groups. After lynching me, more or less, now they wish to hear me." She denied that she was going to be South Viet Nam's observer at the United Nations General Assembly. "I have nothing to do with the U.N.," she said. "I am not even going there to visit, because I have already seen...
...Lower East Side, and with chicken soup and peaches to keep them going, a dozen pianists kept the ritual alive for 18 hours and 40 minutes until the final E was struck for the 840th time the next afternoon. The pianists, who were led by Composer John Cage, presented uniform poker faces to their audience, and everyone who bought one of the $5 tickets got a nickel refund for each 20 minutes he stayed in his seat...
...Problem. Sanford Koufax is a lawyer's son who stumbled into baseball by chance. At Brooklyn's Lafayette High School basketball was his game; he won a scholarship to the cage-crazy University of Cincinnati, turned out for baseball just to liven up a dull freshman spring. "I have one problem," Sandy told the coach. "I can't hit." "Well," said the coach, "maybe you can pitch." In his first two games, Koufax struck out 34 batters, and big-league scouts began pounding on his dormitory door. The Dodgers got there first, with a contract that called...
When a cluster of swarming bees is deprived of its queen, the bees soon desert to other bee colonies unless she returns. To find out why, Dr. Simpson imprisoned a queen in a wire-screen cage with double walls. He put the cage near a cluster of worried, queenless bees. The workers responded joyously. They swarmed all over the cage, vibrating their wings. But when Simpson imprisoned a queen in a small, transparent plastic bag, she had no effect on the other bees. They could see and hear her, but they ignored her completely...
This seemed to prove that the queen's perfume is what makes the workers cluster around her, but Simpson wanted to know what part of her is most attractively scented. So he cut a queen in three pieces-abdomen, thorax and head-and put each in a separate cage. None of the three had much effect on-a queenless cluster, but when the severed parts were crushed, the workers rallied around the crushed head. So the queen's powerful perfume must come from her head, probably from the mandibular glands...