Word: caging
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When eleven-year-old Elizabeth Lee reached into a lion cage at an Anchorage amusement park, a 300-lb. lioness named Cleo seized her arm in its teeth. Alaska State Trooper Frank Johnson raced to the rescue, pulled out his pistol and shot the lion in the head. As the lion fell dead, both Johnson and the girl went sprawling; Johnson's gun accidentally went off again, and the girl was wounded in the thigh...
Elizabeth eventually recovered, but she filed a $65,000 damage suit against the trooper, the amusement park and the state of Alaska. The jury decided that the amusement park should pay her $ 15,000 in damages because the cage was inadequately guarded. It rejected the rest of Elizabeth's claim...
Divorced once from one wife, three times from another, Peckinpah is presently unmarried, restless, dissatisfied. Trying to characterize the man, a friend recalls that Peckinpah once kept a pet boa constrictor in his office. One day, the friend found Peckinpah staring at the cage, which contained the snake and a petrified white mouse...
...Amherst game, in which the Crimson initiated a new starting lineup, proved that the squad can score. Offense has been Harvard's main weakness so far this season, and if Saturday's contest in Amherst Cage is any indication, it's not a problem any more...
Starr (177) is suffering from a torn cartilage on the sternum of his rib cage. Wrestling does not endanger further injury, Lee said, but the original damage can bother a wrestler for a long time. "He's been running a lot and appears to be ready," Lee said...