Word: caging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time of the year, but even New Zealand's chilly days are not enough to winterkill the dreams of freedom that bloom eternally in the hearts of men and monkeys. Three weeks ago, despite the weather, six bonnet monkeys decided to give up the comforts of a warm cage in the Auckland Zoo and take up residence in a pine grove just down West View Road. Zoo authorities tried in vain to lure them back, but the free souls in the pine trees only mocked their efforts...
...last Zouzou let him in; family, doctors and lawyers soon followed and a parley ensued. Brokenheartedly, Safsaf promised a divorce, whereupon Zouzou coldly agreed to go back to her gilded cage in Garden City...
Welcome Home. Professor Clement Darrelhyde, for example, is scarcely less frustrated than Edwina at Percy's gentle but unyielding reluctance to father her offspring. Every day the professor stands before their cage at the London Zoo to observe their mating habits. He anticipates a certain fame as the first white man to see and record what native reports suggest is "a ceremonial so poetic, so apparently conscious that, if it were true it must mark a stage between the highest beast and Man." When a government interloper tries to requisition Percy for a suicidal rocket project, the professor decides...
...attention. For Dean Pound of the Law School announced that $1,250,000 was being put into enlarging Langdell Hall and that the School was engaged in a campaign for $5 million. Construction on two medical buildings was under way, a new chemical laboratory was going up, a baseball cage was being built, and Fogg Museum was nearly ready for occupancy, all this in addition to talk about a new indoor athletic building. Indeed, the year saw Harvard booming with American, and were it not for financial limitations, she might no6FOGG MUSEUM, completed...
...college, Gambler Murchison was caught in a crap game. He was told he could stay if he signed a no-craps pledge. But Murchison would not make such a promise; he returned to Athens as a teller in his father's bank. Instead of staying in his cage, Clint spent most of his time drinking coffee and drumming up business at the corner drugstore. He could not be bothered counting small change that was not included in the bank's legal reserves. But a bank inspector reasoned differently, ordered Murchison to count every dime in his cage. Murchison...