Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excused for wondering just what had hit him. Most publicized catch in the abortive assassination plot against President Perón (TIME, Oct. 4), he was scheduled for trial next month with eleven other defendants. Meanwhile he was held in solitary; only his wife and daughter could visit his cell...
...seldom had much to say about everyday affairs; but when the conversation turned to spiritual things he sometimes became so eloquent and moved that he would break off and excuse himself. "My brethren," he would say, "I must go; someone is waiting to converse with me in my cell...
...Sternist prisoners at Jaffa made their own rules, ripped bars from the windows and tore down the steel doors connecting their cells. Guards, who feared that the prisoners might still have hidden arms, thoughtfully left their own guns outside before entering the cell block...
...instructed to write confessions. None of their "confessions" were acceptable. On the fifth day they were handed "confessions" and told to sign them. Interrogators pointed to a stack of statements by company employees. "You're not a boy. Look at what we have against you." Back in his cell, Ruedemann noticed for the first time the sketchy histories of some previous suspects scribbled on the wall. One had stayed in the cell 17 days, another 23. Said Ruedemann: "Then I asked myself, 'What am I doing here?' " Ruedemann signed the "confession...
...brain's most baffling qualities-memory-began to be explained, said Dr. Hoagland, when it was found that many of the brain's neurons are arranged in closed chains. An impulse can move around the chain, "firing" one cell after another. When it gets back to its starting place, it can make the circuit again & again. These circulating impulses, thinks Dr. Hoagland, are the basis of memory...