Word: caged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bags filled with Jason's food-a solution of amino acids, water, sugar, salt, potassium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, vitamins and trace elements. A battery-powered miniature pump zippered into another vest pocket propels the solution through a tube implanted in Jason's skin midway between his rib cage and navel. The tube runs up his chest to the base of his neck, where it threads into a vein leading to the superior vena cava, the large vessel that finally returns blood from the head and neck to the heart...
...opposes him is to be supported." Adds a former U.S. diplomat: "If you were in the Kremlin, you would say to yourself, what do we do? You strike at the most vulnerable point, and that point is the Persian Gulf. In effect, you rattle the Shah's bird cage. You rattle it hard. This is what they are doing. But let's not get dishonest. Let's not also say that everybody is a Communist. That's not necessarily true. This is power politics we're playing here today. This is not ideology...
...shark cage while the other quietly plunged into the sea with little protection. But neither Diana Nyad, 28, nor Stella Taylor, 46, completed her marathon swim last week. Nyad was thwarted in her Cuba-to-Key West swim by 5-ft. to 8-ft. waves and painful jellyfish stings. As for Taylor, she headed off for Florida from the Bahamas, but was forced to stop because of strong currents. Said she: "It was a great time...
...free to travel anywhere. He was incarcerated in the U.S. Army Disciplinary Training Center in Pisa, charged with treason for making speeches over Rome radio in support of Mussolini's regime. For the first three weeks of his imprisonment, Pound, then 59, was kept in a small outdoor cage with a cement floor, free only to watch the Pisan clouds by day and "O moon my pin-up" at night. Improbably, some of his greatest poetry flowered there and in the tent where he languished during the next five months...
...feel like a bird that has been let I out of its cage." So said Portugal's Socialist Party Leader Mario Soares last week, after emerging from the country's presidential palace in Belém. In fact, the jowly, amiable politician, known as "Chubby Cheeks" among his countrymen, had just been fired as Premier by Portugal's President, General António Ramalho Eanes. After two years as Portugal's first freely elected Premier since the 1974 April revolution, Soares will leave office as soon as Eanes appoints another Premier. And when he goes, Soares will take the 11 Socialist members...