Word: caging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sluggish INS to free those for whom the Government cannot make a convincing argument for continued detention. For the innocents among the imprisoned Cubans and for their supporters, Judge Shoob's order is good news indeed. "The Government was doing nothing, while these people were sitting in a cage," complains Tomas Antona, a founder of the Atlanta Committee on Behalf of Cuban Prisoners. Adds Rafael Fernandez-Roque, a Cuban still awaiting his freedom: "That man has done what we never dreamed the INS could do. We are all grateful...
...Just one more and that does me,' I said. And moved to the reeking cage of the Rare Spectacled Bears, who were hiding behind their drinking-and-dunking pool when I opened their cage. I had to shout at them to make them come out. They came shoulder to shoulder across the floor, heads lowered like whipped dogs. They turned circles through the destroyed Biergarten, running too close together and butting themselves into umbrellas and hissing monkeys...
...This is enough, I thought. Enough, for sure. And I was winding through the other, roaring bear cages when Gallen screamed, Schrutt's out! I thought. But when I squinted through cage corners and down the dark paths toward the Small Mammal House, I saw a man-shaped figure, loping more or less on all fours, turn the corner by the Monkey Complex-followed by another just like him, though not as thick in the chest. The orangutan and the lowland gorilla, in cahoots...
...wasteland at Harvard, but those days seem emphatically over. Crippled by the worst facility this side of Moskva--the ancient and decrepit Indoor Athletic Building--the hoopsters could not convince any serious ballplayers to spend four years here. But the team has a new arena under construction. Briggs Cage, a few good recruiting years under its belt, and a first-ever Ivy championship within reach. Look for coach Frank McLaughlin (the Bronx's Ambassador to Harvard) and his squad to give traditional powers Penn and Princeton a run for the laurels this year...
Oommen said if the masons go back to work in the near future. "we don't anticipate any problems with getting Briggs Cage ready in time for the dedication...