Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little cynically - the world certainly would unite against her in disbelief if she reported the death. She spent four days on the stand. In the county jail, her fellow-prisoners rallied to her support: throughout the six-week trial they kept her hair dyed and waved, tidied her cell, washed her nylons. Halfway through her ordeal they bought her a new spring hat to wear to court. While the jury deliberated, she read Lin Yutang's The Importance of Living...
...cell was ready & waiting in London's Old Bailey. In the old days, a man convicted of treason would have been dragged behind a horse to the scaffold, hanged, disembowelled, beheaded and quartered. Now, after due trial, he would simply be taken to the Tower and hanged...
...mood to exasperate the Allies. Instead of going to the swanky Ritz Hotel, where a suite once occupied by the Duke of Windsor and Heinrich Himmler had been reserved for him, Laval was hustled into forbidding Montjuich, the stone fortress which looms over Barcelona. Into a massive cell (whose rigors were later softened by a spring bed and furniture from the Ritz) moved the unwelcome Frenchman. At his request a radio was installed. The first news he heard was a "Voice of America" program in French...
Then Hitler made one of the most valuable mistakes of his life: he and his handful of Party comrades decided to seize the Bavarian Government. Hitler had promised to kill himself if the attempt failed. Instead he went to jail in the Landsberg prison in a cozy cell (compliments of friendly officials...
...police learned from the small son of a cook in the monastery adjoining the Cathedral that the choirmaster, a Christian Brother, had been storing bombs in his cell. Irrepressible Bogotanos, recalling how another of the Brothers had been blown up last February when a bomb exploded in his pocket, dubbed the order "Cuerpo de Bomberos" (a pun, meaning either Fire Department or Bombers' Corps...