Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Frankensteen tried to address a workers' mass meeting, held in a bean field opposite the huge plant, a cell of hecklers milled around the speaker's stand, waved sketches of rats, jackasses and skunks at him, booed him off the platform. Taking to the air again, he suspended his own assistant, Communistic oldtime Labor Leader Wyndham Mortimer, three international organizers and all officers of the brash young local. Strike leaders decided to defy the President, keep the plant strike-shut. They were backed by local and State C.I.O. groups, by Harry Bridges' longshoremen, by their...
...Land: "Only that stability which is rooted in one's own holding makes of the family the most vital and most perfect and fecund cell of society...
...book begins with the clang of a cell door closing in a GPU prison. It ends with a shot in the back of the head in a murky passageway of the prison cellar. It moves with the speed, directness, precision and some of the impact of a bullet. More plausibly than any other book yet written, fiction or nonfiction, it gives the answer to one of history's great riddles: Why do Russians confess...
...There has been no suppression. The man who calls himself Frank Jackson (alias Jacques Mornard) has been convicted of Trotsky's murder, is in close custody in Mexico City jail awaiting sentence, while Mexican authorities look further into the dark question of Stalinist instigation. Jackson's cell is specially constructed, has steel bars like a tiger's cage. His onetime very good friend, Sylvia Ageloff, was acquitted of complicity, left Mexico...
...only produced a tadpole, but a tadpole which showed some characteristics of its mother. The obvious and significant conclusion: The intricate mechanism of embryonic development is not determined by genes alone, as most geneticists have thought, but depends on the whole protoplasm of the egg cell...