Word: caging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until the last few moments of the game that disaster struck, not long after a shot by Landolt bounce off the top bar of the Penn cage. Three different Quakers fired in shots from the left side to tie the game, 10-10, and lead to five minutes of overtime...
...real problem in getting the team ready, and the reason for uncertainty about the team's prospects, is Briggs Cage. Due to the slow arrival of spring, the stickmen have been forced to dash around the famous Briggs dust, quite a different environment from the outdoors. "Everyone looks like an All-American in here," said the Crimson coach...
...recovery helicopter descended to lower the cagelike sling used to lift the astronauts aboard, the draft from its rotor whipped the ocean swells and pushed the floating spacecraft and attached rafts away. Again and again, as NASA the helicopter made passes, frogmen reached for and missed the dangling cage...
When Astronaut Scott was finally able to hitch a ride after ten misses, the cage swung widely back and forth in stomach-churning arcs as it was lifted to the helicopter. Astronaut Schweickart, the next passenger, was splashed through the water on the first swing of the sling. Astronaut McDivitt was forced to take refuge on the flotation collar when the wind flipped over his raft. McDivitt got a thorough soaking and dizzying spin before he was lifted safely aboard the helicopter. Although the astronauts were probably never in real danger, the recovery provided exciting counterpoint to Apollo...
Some start training early; most don't. A large number of those who begin preparing as early as January take advantage of glamorous Briggs Cage, especially now that the Harvard track team has withdrawn to its hallowed bubble...