Word: caging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other word commands are "X," "Y" and "Z," which call for motion in one of three directions. The astronaut can also say "stop," to end whatever action is going on, or "cage" to shut down the whole apparatus. "Stop-plus" and "stop-minus" might be used to switch on the gyro apparatus that keeps his attitude stabilized within two different degrees of accuracy...
...burn and slay and raise dragon" in the land. On June 19, at Methven field, the English scattered the rebel forces with great slaughter. King Robert's wife, daughter and sister were captured-in the spirit of fair prey, the English shut his sister up in a cage and hung her for several months on the walls of Roxburgh Castle. The King fled headlong to the Irish Sea, and for five fateful months was lost to history...
...stand there and shiver with him rather than step out into the crowd and point, and laugh, or look a bit bemused and tut-tut to my neighbor. Because some big gas is building up in Mailer's chest, straining against his rib cage, straining to explode out any orifice into a dazzling fireworks of vision, or prophecy, or whatever those fireworks are that naked writers with gaseous insides hope to release in testament to their genius...
...Munro didn't have 13 returning lettermen from last year's Ivy co champions, his optimism would be completely unfounded. For in three week of practice, the weather has allowed his team outdoors only twice. The rest of the practices have been held in Briggs Cage, where, according to Munro, "the visibility is poor and the space just inadequate...
...hundred metronomes went ticktack, ticktack during the 15-minute performance of Györgi Ligeti's composition, Poème Symphonique. A toy gun popped, a yellow umbrella flipped open, while Soloist David Tudor banged directly on the piano strings with a hammer, executing John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra. The movie collage Breathdeath offered a drawn foot coming out of Richard Nixon's mouth. In French Playwright Eugene lonesco's one-acter, Bedlam Galore, for Two or More, "She" and "He" quarreled, and quarreled some more, while a civil war went on outside...