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Word: celling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greeny Greenberg, a former associate of Bugsy, was found dead. Police arrested Bugsy. In jail, Bugsy lived fine, arranged for meals of steak and pheasant, and had liquor served in his cell to entertain his women visitors. And things took care of themselves. Two State's witnesses suddenly died: the case against Bugsy died with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Murder in Beverly Hills | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...courtyard, the bodies were being placed in unpainted coffins. A bulldozer was dredging a common grave. The vegetable garden tended by the condemned during their imprisonment burgeoned in the spring sunshine. It could be seen from the cell where Hitler in 1924 wrote Mein Kampf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Death In the Sunshine | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...lone cell in the grey prison building, was bitter with a special German kind of bitterness. Granted a stay of execution, Otto Striegel snapped: "Why wasn't I hanged with my comrades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Death In the Sunshine | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...pavement. But life went on in the Gallería. In August 1944, it was the unofficial heart of Naples. It was a living and subdividing cell of vermouth, Allied soldiery and the Italian people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homage to Naples | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...favored him with other miracles (in 1468 his prayers saved the town of Sarnen from a conflagration), with the gift of prophecy and with visions. High dignitaries of church & state sought him out in his ravine, where a cell and chapel were finally built to replace his hut of branches and leaves. In 1480 he is credited with saving Switzerland from civil war and possible partition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Swiss Saint | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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