Word: cages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once, circus hyperbole comes close to fact. At one end of the Gyro-Wheel's arms is a heavy counterweight; at the other is a circular wire-mesh cage 8 ft. in diameter. Bale and his wife Jeanette give the cage a mighty push. As it begins to turn, Bale hops inside, then makes like a hamster in an exercise wheel. As the cage rises, he runs up the inside to help maintain speed. When it reaches the top, Bale backpedals frantically to slow the whooshing descent, reversing again at the bottom to propel himself around the loop once...
...Sudan by a American explorer, who came across him battling wild mountain lions. Realizing the man's fantastic potential as a professional wrestler, they sent out a party to capture him. Although few in the party survived, the Butcher was captured, and shipped to America in a cage. Many of his opponents wished he had remained therein. Abdullah has been photographed attacking his adversaries with the severed leg of a sheep, with metal pipes he must have ripped out of the walls of stadium lavoratories, and with fruit canning equipment; at one match, angered by the disparaging remarks of fans...
...maintenance of the Briggs Cage should be done without the current use of two gasoline powered tractors, or ventilation should be increased and the work done only early in the morning...
...Yeah, I know where Harvard is," Pete Rose said as he awaited his turn in the batting cage at Redsland in Tampa, Florida. "Some girl on a game show last week didn't know where it was but I do," he continued...
Other world champion Reds had the same idea as Rose. Joe Morgan also took his turn in the cage and when he wasn't working on the baseball, he worked on his teammates. "Looks like I'm going to have to carry you guys again for the first month," Morgan chided some teammates. Eventually, the talk drifted to contracts. "They had to sign me," Morgan contended. "They already put me in the press guide...