Word: celles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not quite believe it. A revolutionary smell clung to him like the faint, unmistakable odor of the cell and the cellar. It showed in his quack-doctor's beard and stump-speaker's hair, in his thin, restless hands and his flashing, nearsighted eyes; in his quick, alert, high-shouldered walk as he strolled about his garden. It persisted in his plotter's habits of thought, which made him the most potent critic of the regime he broke with and always a latent threat to it. The fate that all revolutionaries fear had pursued him wherever...
...prison cell on the outskirts of Buenos Aires last week marched Enrique P. Oses, editor of the swaggering, German-financed, openly Nazi El Pampero, enjoying a temporary freedom on bail. For months he had trumpeted rabid denunciations of the U. S., of President Roosevelt, of the Havana Conference, of Great Britain with noisy immunity. But last month he offended the Argentine sense of good taste, was whisked off to jail...
What changes the Germans have added to such fundamental procedure the Germans are keeping to themselves. One possibility is that they have done away with the bomb-release button, use a photoelectric cell built into the sight to drop the bombs when the sight is on the target. Purpose of mechanical dropping is to avoid a lapse sometimes as long as one-fifth of a second between the time a bombardier sights the target and the time his mind has telegraphed the button-pushing impulse to his fingers. Split seconds in the releasing operation make yards of difference...
...encountered tepidity, mediocrity, downright corruption. The much-touristed monastery at Himi was particularly disenchanting: the food and water were noisome, ferocious dogs snarled (chained) in the courtyard, inestimable works of art disintegrated in the corridors, the abbot was a fool for such gadgets as bicycle bells and dry-cell batteries, all of them out of commission. But Marco Pallis did find four good & great men, to whom he dedicates his book. From one he learned the traditions and processes of Tibetan painting. With the others he debated on war, on compassion, on the relative merits of Christianity and Buddhism...
Belatedly the secret services decided that Admiral Sir Barry Edward Domville, 62, onetime chief of Naval Intelligence and, since his retirement in 1936, an ardent Naziphile, guest in Germany of Hitler, Göring and Gestapo Chief Himmler, head of The Link (British pro-Nazi cell), was a dangerous character. They found and arrested him at his home in Roehampton, jailed also his half-German wife and their son, Compton...