Word: caged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hanoi's Chi Linh Park, amidst the tamarind, rhododendron and banyan trees, there are two man-made structures. One is a bomb shelter, constructed in the mid-'60s as U.S. air strikes crept closer to the capital. The other is a round cage with a pagoda-style roof, built in the French colonial period but maintained by the Communists; it houses two large cranes, symbols in the Far East of longevity and prosperity. The bomb shelter is overgrown with weeds and largely ignored by the populace. "It is marked for demolition," explained one of our official escorts...
...days will be the rule. In the morning, the entire team will break loose for an hour of running. The afternoon practices will be devoted to technique, broken down into individual events. Released from the nauseating confines of Briggs Cage, the field athletes and outdoor runners will have the chance to strut their stuff...
Spring training is a time for painful windsprints, leglifts and drills, and for not-so-painful games of pepper and idle chatter around the batting cage...
...really all that much different at Harvard than it is any place else. While guys like Yastrzemski and Munson were poling the ball around at places like Winter Haven and St. Petersburg yesterday, guys like Joyce and Singleton were going through the rounds down at Briggs Cage...
Take a can of Endust and a dry mop and dust off Briggs Cage...