Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bite until the Indian civil disobedience movement came to terms, the trouble would be over in a few days. Of course, before those few days could elapse my Liberal, Conservative and Labor colleagues in London would send for me to come home and would have a padded cell waiting for me on my arrival...
...fission: reproduction by spontaneous division of a cell into two parts, each of which grows into a complete organism. Many bacteria are fissiparous...
Howard Phillips, innocent of crime, is brought into the deathhouse as an electrocution prospect. The other convicts, introverts all, reflect on life as they await their turns in the chair. As in the play, the cell lights flicker and dim when the current is turned into the chair. Phillips swoons, mentally recapitulates his conviction. Preston Foster is the tough convict who leads the move by which the convicts capture the guards, barricade themselves inside the deathhouse. Bargaining for their liberty they execute the guards one by one. Meanwhile, radio policemen outside are chasing a set of gangsters...
...world that I don't like it. To show the world that 7 object to it. Do ya think that I wanna die? Ya think that I ain't a human being? Ya think I don't wanna live? Ya think it's nice to wait in that rotten cell, day after day. week after week, month after month, and see men die, one after another, see lights go dim. hear the whine of that motor, and wait and wait and wait, and die a million times every minute...
...that Austria planned alliance with one or another. His craftiness brought Austria an international loan, prevented civil war. He resigned the chancellorship in 1929; recalled last year, he failed to form a cabinet. In office and out he always lived as a simple priest in a small stone cloister cell, where each morning he celebrated mass. His noon meal was usually soup taken to him in a convent iron kettle...