Word: caging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They took a cage with stout bars...
...former Cincinnati Reds scout has watched therapist baseball team practice on the grass less diamond that is Briggs Cage this past month. The former scout is now a college baseball coach and after a few indoor sessions Norman W. Shepard is impressed with the strength of his first Crimson team...
...double man who divides and finally conquers her loyalties. On one of his Olympian binges, or gnawing a chicken wing, he seems like another Charles Laughton playing Henry VIII. But behind the regal belch hides the lonely and fiercely honest old artist. He mercilessly paints Celia in a cage, an adolescent waif trapped behind the narrow bars of parental thou-shalt-nots. At novel's end, with Fatuncle's help, she has flown the coop to become a woman-her own woman. Author Hallinan has written a fine and pleasing novel, even if her prose is occasionally more...
...years since the Allies drove the Japanese back to the cage of their meager islands and forbade them ever to bear arms again. It is three years since the West ruefully reversed course, gave the Japanese their independence, and bade them rearm and join in the defense against Communism...
...their radios to a surprise communication from King Norodom Sihanouk, 32, their saxophone-playing monarch who had won Cambodia's independence from the French. "As your King," King" Norodom was saying, "I can no longer be useful to you. I beg you, permit me to leave my gilded cage...