Word: caging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baseball team practiced in Briggs cage for about three weeks before spring recess. On the basis of this skimpy observation, coach Nat Harris cautiously says that his team has pretty good depth at the plate and on the mound. His chief worry, Harris believes, will be infield defense...
...hopeless hypochondriac who existed on spaghetti and prunes, found it difficult to get up in the morning and impossible to get to sleep at night. She complained that she was too weak to wash or comb her hair or care for her pets-two pedigreed dogs, a huge cage of exotic birds, and a vast aquarium of equally exotic fish. So the dogs dirtied her room, the birds died, and the aquarium was carpeted with dead fish...
...mountains seem to shift in the space of a night and perhaps the exhibitionist at the corner of Chestnut and Elm streets is more significant than the lovely woman with a bar of sunlight in her hair, putting a fresh piece of cuttlebone in the nightingale's cage." > A drunken Episcopal priest who has forgotten his liturgy may utter a valid prayer: "Let us pray for all those killed or cruelly wounded on thruways, expressways, freeways, and turnpikes. Let us pray for all those burned to death in faulty plane landings, mid-air collisions and mountainside crashes...
...hoped to take a side of fifteen men to Nassau to play two games with the Nassau Rugby Association and one against Yale. However, the unexpected resignation of Rubgy Club Captain Richard Carey two days ago has made it doubtful that the trip will take place. Tonight in Briggs Cage, after the election of new officers, the fate of the trip will be decided...
...colored men's cage at the Hinds County Jail consists of a hundred-foot corridor with five eight-man cells on either side. Everything except the floor is made of unpainted blue steel--the floor is of ancient cracked cement. Each cell is eighteen feet wide by eleven feet deep with two barred and screened windows. There is a hole in the floor of each cell which serves as a toilet--it is flushed periodically by trusties who happen by. There is a needle-spray cold water shower in the large day room (in which the prisoners are locked from...