Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cell, Susan learned that it also (technically) forbids hitchhiking,* and demands (by a law passed in 1799) that strangers be able to give a good account of themselves. Susan's account, including her admittedly phony name, was not good enough for the easily irritated Jersey cops. But Susan was as stubborn as they were. After she had been in jail 23 days, Assistant Prosecutor Stephen Toth Jr. tried to reason with her. But Susan, whose description and fingerprints had been sent to the FBI and all state police, claimed that her right name was her own affair...
...basis of one system, now being tested. Each signal box would have an infra-red generator; when its danger signal was up, a box would pour a constant beam of rays down the track. An approaching train would pick up the bad news on a photoelectric cell in the driver...
...revolution himself. He fought under General Carranza against Pancho Villa, was captured, sentenced to die at dawn and escaped from a drunken guard. Later he fought with Obregón against Carranza, then against Obregón for General de la Huerta. Jailed again, he blew up his cell with smuggled dynamite, appropriated a horse and galloped north to the border...
...might expect, the throne-room of the New England Watch and Ward Society is a cold, bare cell in the far-reaches of the Christian Endeavor Building, just across from the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children and nigh unto the stronghold of the Anti-vivisection League. In the midst of two city blocks of good-doings, this traditionally New England watchdog of morality slowly undergoes a transition that may transform a 20th Century Inquisition into a same, if overexcited, organ of public conscience. From out of this holy-of-holies stop Beacon Hill have come some...
Salmon in the Cell. Evelyn did not act like a woman on trial for her life. She yawned, drew sketches. In her cell between sessions she burbled delightedly: "I get salmon salads . . . everything I like." She asked for magazines: "You know, love stories. ... Lots of them." She got fan mail, a dozen carnations, a card reading: "Happy Returns...