Word: caging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...artificial insemination ("artsem," in Newspeak). All personal loyalty belongs to the Party. Winston and Julia are caught by the Thought Police and hauled off to the Ministry of Love. He is relentlessly tortured, then taken to Room 101, where his worst fear has been readied by interrogators. As a cage bearing a rat is being pushed toward his face, he begs that this punishment be inflicted on Julia instead. This betrayal eliminates the last trace of his integrity. He has become a good Party Member...
...Harvard Classics basketball team opened its season last night with a 78-71 victory over the Harvard junior varsity squad at Briggs Cage. The Classics were led by junior John Williams and senior Dave Thompson, who scored 18 and 14 points respectively...
Stephen Spender, British writer, on visiting a U.S. shopping mall: "It's like a zoo in which the inhabitants happen to be human beings, very excited about their new cage...
...haven't got a good idea of what I am doing," said sophomore netminder Jill Vialet after blanking Yale in her first start. "Although I am very athletic, I hadn't played goalie before this year." Vialet played most of her season on JV. She was forced into the cage after Harvard lost its second netminder Saturday...
...array of aftershocks for rape victims includes depression, guilt, diminished interest in sex, breakups of relationships, obsessive concern for safety and loss of trust. Studies show that divorces and suicide attempts are fairly common after rape. "I live like I'm in a cage," says Mary Bronnenberg, one of Johns' victims in Los Angeles. "There are bars on the windows and floodlights on the house. I know there's no way anybody can get in, but I'm still scared...