Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of generations of experience and all the thousands of case histories, cancer research has advanced at a turtle's pace. Doctors acknowledge the basic truisms that cancer is cell growth gone wild, that cases discovered early can sometimes be cured through X ray, surgery, radioactive substances. But beyond that, chains of ignorance still bind their hands...
Slippery. In Houston, small-boned Frank Mullins told how last June he broke out of his death cell in Edinburgh jail: he dieted, greased himself with nose salve, slithered through a 12-inch hole and an 18-inch drainpipe...
...lost his interest in education. He became librarian of the state penitentiary at Concord, N.H.; his 200-odd fellow inmates came to him for advice on correspondence-school courses to take and books to read. The library he built up (and was allowed to sleep in, instead of a cell) became the envy of other prisons...
Most unlikely case: the convict who concealed, in his colon, "a tool box containing a piece of gun barrel, a screw driver, two hack saws, a boring syringe, a file, several coins, thread and tallow." Instead of hacking or boring his way to freedom, the ingenious convict escaped his cell by dying of bowel obstruction...
Traitor William ("Lord Haw-Haw") Joyce, 39, played chess with a warder till midnight, then went to bed in his Wandsworth cell. Chief Hangman Albert Pierrepoint, 37, made things snug for his first solo job since taking over from his Uncle Thomas, then went to bed in the prison library. At 6 Joyce rose and washed, but did not bother to shave. At the gallows Pierrepoint was waiting. Round the neck of the frozen-faced traitor, he expertly draped the noose. Then he sprang the trap...