Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again, the Senator claimed Lilienthal was "too soft on issues connected with Communism." This is substantiated by Taft's contention that "There is no doubt that a Communist cell was tolerated by Mr. Lilienthal in the TVA." A check of all the facts would show relatively few government agencies free from the infiltration of eight to 12 Communists, the size of the textbook-defined cell. If Mr. Taft is frightened by cell-infection, his fear ought best be focused on the Washington scene, where the presence of a dozen Communists in any department of several thousands would surprise...
...British Army had arrived. Gruner sent for paper, made a will leaving his bonus to the Irgun Z-vai Leumi, the Jewish terrorist organization that considers itself at war with Britain. Then Gruner, in the blood-red uniform of a prisoner condemned to death, sat in his Jerusalem cell and waited for the British to make up their minds whether to hang...
...sweating cement, and trusts no one but its own masons with the mixing of it. The balls add to the game's speed and cost: they are golf-ball size but made like baseballs-tightly wound cotton thread covered with leather. They shoot around the cell-like court so fast that experts judge the ball's speed not only by the eye but by the "bock" sound it makes hitting the wall. Racquets, thin-shafted and fragile, are also costly. The late Charles Williams, regarded as one of the greatest of all racquets players, once broke...
These busy "self-duplicating" bodies the scientists called "plasmagenes." There are probably thousands of them, competing actively for nourishment in the cell's body like cattle, prairie dogs and rabbits on an overstocked range. Anything which affects this competition may favor certain plasmagenes above the others, allowing the favored ones to multiply abnormally, as rabbits once did in Australia. A change in the balance of plasmagenes affects the cell's chemical behavior, as rabbits affected Australia by eating much of its rangeland bare of grass. The cell's genes take no part in the transformation...
...Control. What good was the discovery? The biological revolutionists were reluctant to say. But they admitted (with a gleam in their eyes) that it gave a new, promising method of controlling cell life and growth. They had already con trolled yeast cells by regulating competition among plasmagenes. Future biologists might do the same with bacteria cells or man cells...