Word: caging
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...Frogs perceive the world only as a schematic digaram of what is relevant to them. They see nothing that does not move toward them. In that they always move forward; that is all they ordinarily need. They occasionally starve to death in a cage supplied with dead flies...
...ashore as "Zulu-grams" or "Zumie-grams" or just "Zoomies." In a service more encrusted with class protocol than most, they have especially endeared Zumwalt to enlisted men. Zumwalt, declares a chief on the destroyer U.S.S. Halsey, is "the first C.N.O. who has ever rattled this bird cage down to the level where I can feel...
Steve Manion, secretary for Leverett, says that his cage squad has "four varsity leftermen and a sophomore who's as good as the lettermen," putting his squad in good position to challenge for the lead...
When he recovered two months later, Weese was forgiving. "We'd been in his cage all week, pounding and welding new bars," the keeper explained. "Sabu was just naturally upset." The Tucson Zoological Commission was not so understanding. Three weeks ago, the commission voted to have Sabu executed. Weese was outraged. So were thousands of other Tucson residents. Nearly 7,000 wrote letters pleading for clemency. Last week the city council voted unanimously to abolish the commission, thereby commuting Sabu's sentence to life...
...director of the Vietnamese press center, Nguyen Ngoc Huyen, has now told Luce that his press card will not be renewed. Huyen admitted to other correspondents that the reason was the tiger-cage story. The pro-government Saigon Post, an English-language newspaper, cheered: "The mills of the gods have finally caught up with Don Luce. This man was more dangerous to Viet Nam than a Stokely Carmichael. So we must kick him out, and any others like...