Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arriving in Canada, Hans Rott, onetime Austrian Secretary of State for Labor, mentioned the half-forgotten name of a politician who once tried to double-cross Hitler at his own game: Kurt von Schuschnigg. In a heatless, lightless cell on the top floor of the Gestapo headquarters in Vienna's dingy Metropol Hotel. Austria's last Chancellor, doomed to slow death, is almost blind, according to Rott, as a result of Gestapo torture...
...government, a comparatively recent child of political science. For the mayor-boss it substitutes a trained, salaried executive, the city manager, who operates in a strictly non-political sphere. He is solely responsible to the city council, whose members are elected by the community at large. Thus the cell of bossism, the ward, is smashed; and all the petty strings pulled by ward politicians are tied into a strong web around the city council. Further, the dictatorship of the 51 per cent is supplanted by a system of proportional representation, under which each party receives a number of representatives proportional...
...airliner he used to pilot in the U. S. "We made a trip once," he explains, "and there weren't any passengers aboard. That's how I lost my commercial license." Before he leaves the prison camp, Milland tells the commanding officer about a rat in his cell-"a very intelligent rat, so I named him Adolf and taught him how to give the Nazi salute...
...down in the Maginot Line's Fort of Rotherberg in Lorraine. Like a sunken battleship, the fortress throbbed eight hours a day as Diesels pumped in air and light. At 10 o'clock the motors stopped. The lights went out. Then sleep in Chambrun's concrete cell battled with claustrophobia. The first night he had to climb up to the iron entrance and gasp for fresh air through the crack above the concrete sill. "Just pretend you are a monk living in the Middle Ages," counseled Bentz, his cellmate. After a month of living like a mole...
...valleys on the Western slope of the Andes from an elevation of 1000 to 2600 meters over an arid desolate and sparsely inhabited country. Nearly every one who spends a night here is affected a few days later with a severe anemia which often proves fatal. The red blood cell count may drop at the rate of a million...