Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancient Egyptians. For 700 years the Romans propitiated a special god of stem rust, Robigo. But Elvin Stakman was one of the first to plumb the secrets of plant fungi growth. He discovered that every fungus contains a number of parasitic strains, and that a single fungus cell may produce thousands of varieties which look alike but differ in their plant tastes...
Next day, in a barren cell under the Washington courtroom where he is on trial for sedition, Naziphile George Sylvester Viereck Sr., already serving a one-to-five-year prison term as an unregistered agent of the Reich, listened stolidly as his wife broke the news to him. The Vierecks' other son, Sergeant Peter Viereck, author of a critical book on the origins of National Socialism, is now in North Africa...
...case might have ended there, if Loury from his cell had not appealed to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Negro Judge William H. Hastie, onetime aid to War Secretary Stimson and dean of the Howard University School of Law, and New York Congressman Vito Marcantonio, took up the case. Evidence which had been presented in Noumea courts and affidavits showed, they said, that Loury and Fisher had been railroaded...
...ninth day after sentence, a guard unlocked Pierre Pucheu's cell, a chaplain said a brief mass. At the place of execution Pierre Pucheu spurned a blindfold, stared firmly at the firing squad, himself gave the command, "Ready! . . . Aim! . . . Fire!", then slumped in death...
...Captain Ross (Dana Andrews) the Japs.attempt no torture, learn nothing from him. Sergeant Skvoznik (Kevin )'Shea) is a former Ail-American, and nobody worries about his cracking. Torture reduces him to idiocy. Lieut. Bay-forth (Charles Russell) comes back to his cell with his mutilated hands concealed by black gloves. Lieut. Vincent (Donald Barry) survives with just enough mind left to stumble through snatches of The Battle Hymn of the Republic...