Word: cages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monopoly on such horrors. The Communists have committed more than their share of atrocities. At the My Lai trial in Fort Benning, Ga., Radio Operator Robert van Leer told of how the Viet Cong dealt with one captured American soldier. They fitted a bird-cage-like device around his head, said Van Leer, then filled it with live rats...
...Nevada State Prison, for example, 23 judges from all over the U.S. emerged "appalled at the homosexuality," shaken by the inmates' "soul-shattering bitterness" and upset by "men raving, screaming and pounding on the walls." Kansas Judge E. Newton Vickers summed up: "I felt like an animal in a cage. Ten years in there must be like 100 or maybe 200." Vickers urged Nevada to "send two bulldozers out there and tear the damn thing to the ground...
...rights were scrupulously respected, the felon has a good chance of being banished to one of 187 escape-proof fortresses, 61 of them built before 1900. Now stripped of most rights, he often arrives in chains and becomes a number. His head sheared, he is led to a bare cage dominated by a toilet. In many states his cellmate may represent any kind of human misbehavior?a docile forger, a vicious killer, an aggressive homosexual...
...Frogs perceive the world only as a schematic digaram of what is relevant to them. They see nothing that does not move toward them. In that they always move forward; that is all they ordinarily need. They occasionally starve to death in a cage supplied with dead flies...
...ashore as "Zulu-grams" or "Zumie-grams" or just "Zoomies." In a service more encrusted with class protocol than most, they have especially endeared Zumwalt to enlisted men. Zumwalt, declares a chief on the destroyer U.S.S. Halsey, is "the first C.N.O. who has ever rattled this bird cage down to the level where I can feel...