Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time was 4:50 p.m. The 1,200 prisoners had finished supper. In Cell Block No. 6, known as Little Siberia, where Warden Best keeps the toughest 232 of his charges, a guard stepped out on a routine cell check. Suddenly, he was cracked over the head with an iron...
That was the signal. Twelve convicts, many of them lifers, began the escape that had been plotted for weeks. They slugged four other guards, threw a switch that opened the electrically locked cell doors...
...taken the Buddhist cure for his troubles (i.e., counting beads and keeping the Buddhist Sabbath), paled as he entered the death cell in Insein jail. Outside, in a glare of fireworks, the independence festivities had begun...
...strength of the film lies in its objectivity. Passing no judgment on twelve-year-old Giuseppe or his fourteen-year-old friend Pasquale, it traces their development from urchins who cry, "Hey, shoeshine, Joe?" at the passing GIs, through the days when they become hardened inmates of a juvenile cell-block where they have been sentenced for black-market sales...
...James Hillier of the Radio Corporation of America displayed electron pictures of parasitic viruses attacking bacteria. The viruses (one four-hundred-millionth of an inch in diameter) looked like tadpoles with skinny tails and bodies. They penetrate the cell wall of the larger bacterium until they fill the whole cell...