Word: caging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defenseman John Baldwin took the ball all the way up the field to the New Hampshire goal and unloosed a shot that struck the top bar of the cage, rebounded onto the helmet of the UNH goalie, and then ricocheted off the side support of the goal. Amid the protests of the varsity team, the referee ruled that the ball had never entered the goal area...
...only planned as an eleven-minute film, but seldom has a moviemaker run into a more temperamental star. The actor was a bobcat that obviously had no intention of doing what he was told. He broke out of his cage, fled up a tree, fought so violently when lassoed that he broke his neck and died. Reported the frustrated moviemaker to his employer, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc.: "I am now without a cat to work with. I very much regret having to report so much trouble, but it seems to go with this kind of work...
...music of Bach (later he was to begin each of his days by playing a few minutes of Bach's Well Tempered Clavichord). Packed off to Barcelona to study, he played in a gambling casino to support himself. Said one awed casino patron: "He transformed a cage into a concert hall, and a concert hall into a temple." Eventually, Casals attracted the attention of Spain's Queen Mother, Maria Cristina. who invited him to play and compose at the court. Britain's Queen Victoria soon summoned him to London for a command performance. But his early success...
...hopes of the world's remaining 28 whooping cranes. But Josephine, oh Josephine, beware the avaricious owl and the rapacious rats who murdered your babe last year. Let your keepers continue their 24 hour guard, let them burn the floodlights brightly, and let them keep the ditch around your cage filled with rat poison...
Banking by Car. So that depositors can transact their business from their cars, the Community National Bank of Pontiac, Mich, installed a teller's curbside cage that rises like a freight elevator out of the sidewalk, still leaving room for pedestrians to pass. After banking hours the cage drops back...