Word: caging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went broke before he paid off, and Walt soon did the same. But for six months after that, he tried to keep the business going. Some days he had nothing to do but sit and play with the mice that infested the studio. Walt kept a few in a cage in the office, and some of them became quite tame. One mouse known as Mortimer showed no desire at all to escape, so he was made a trusty, and lived on Walt's desk...
Every day he climbed into his little cage 20 feet above the foundry floor, to guide his big, metal-toting crane. His co-workers rapped their hammers on stanchions to gain his attention, then motioned what they wanted him to do. The incoming relief operator scrawled necessary messages on the crane walls. At teatime, while the others horsed around, Hewitt sat alone in his crane...
...Wetton got up and said: "Our attitude has become un-Christianlike." The other men nodded. Before they adjourned, the men voted to thank Ed Boyce for being such a good steward-but also to lift the ban on Hewitt. When Hewitt came back from lunch and climbed into his cage, Boyce walked over and said: "O.K., Ron, it's all off." Hewitt smiled and shook Boyce's hand. "I don't bear anyone any malice," said Hewitt in a burst of talkativeness. "Let bygones be bygones...
...Luis Raluys. who for ten years had been fired from a cannon by his wife, made public his explanation for his retirement: "Her aim has gotten so bad I've been in the hospital 17 times. The last time she fired me I landed in the lions' cage. Ive had enough...
...popularity at football's ancestor is on the rise again as the Harvard Rugby Club prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary this spring. The only squad at Harvard with freshmen, upperclassmen, and graduate students combined on one team, the rugby men will resume practice in February at Briggs Cage, in preparation for a ten game spring schedule...