Word: celling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Well, then, condemn me now!" he yelled. "At least the situation will be clear then!" The enraged Mongibeaux bellowed at the guards. Pierre Laval, thrice Premier of France, was hauled away to his cell...
Bare Facts. In Oklahoma City, police arrested a naked woman who refused to put on her clothes for the trip to the police station. She was locked in a cell, still buff-bare, finally changed her mind after sitting a while on an iron fixture...
...Party preaches law & order, moderation. L'Apparato does the revolutionary chores, operates (as have many such Communist International outfits) through a series of pyramided cells of three members, with only one man of each cell knowing one man of the cell above his. The cell structure is strong. It includes many former Italian soldiers captured in Russia and permitted to return to Italy. Cell members have infiltrated many a vital observation post and possible point of action-in utilities, banks, newspapers, reportedly even in police and carabinieri ranks...
Guards, jabbing them with pointed sticks, made them sing and dance for their amusement, hurled them food - gobs of rice - so that they had to scramble for the grains on the filthy cell floor. Learning that Zamperini was a famous miler, they forced him to compete against healthy Jap runners, bribed him (with food) to stall so the Japs could score a glorious victory...
...Langmuir & Co. further discovered that the Russians, through sheer volume of effort, already led the world in some fields of study (e.g., geology and soil science). In Moscow, they found famed Physicist Peter Kapitza presiding over one of the world's best-equipped electronics laboratories-where a photoelectric cell ten times as good as any in the U.S. has been developed...