Word: celling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where there's tyranny, there's tyranny, not only in the gun barrel, not only in the prison cell, not only in the torture rooms . . . There is tyranny in the facial expression firmly set like iron bars, and in the stillborn tormented cry of pain within these bars...
...ruling Democrats campaigned to boost his 441-82 majority on a slogan of "A School, a Road, a Faucet, and a Mosque for Every Village." Menderes obviously had a fat war chest. Having barred all opposition speeches from the air, the wily little Premier ordered 100,000 dry-cell batteries flown in from Europe and passed out free to rural villages so that he could be sure farmers would receive his election harangues loud and clear on their battery-driven sets. Pointing to the new factories and dams on which he has expended every penny that Turkey could earn...
...cell walls of 20th century man's bedeviled self, few writers have inscribed more powerful images of revolt against the "absurdity" of man's fate than France's Albert Camus. Last week the 43-year-old novelist, essayist, playwright, philosopher, editor and Resistance leader was decorated with literature's Legion of Honor, the 1957 Nobel prize, for "clearsighted earnestness which illuminates the problems of the human conscience of our times." Not since Rudyard Kipling received the award in 1907 at the age of 41 had it been granted to so young...
...Clammy Toad. Sister Ursula joins her order in her late teens, is assigned to a convent in Belgium. Like Sister Luke of The Nun's Story, she suffers the shock of initiation: an austere cell so cold that the holy-water stoup is sometimes frozen; the regimen of the "custody of the eyes," i.e., never letting them stray from a modest downward glance; the "instruments of penance," ranging from a scourging cord to metal knee and elbow bracelets studded with blunt-tipped nails. As early as her fifth day, Sister Ursula feels "a dreadful sick sensation as though...
Only fifteen men live in the Monastery at the present time. Each inhabits a monastic cell, a single room equipped with a cot, a spindly desk, one chair, a chest-of-drawers, a closet, and a lamp. There is a wash basin in one corner and a bathroom down the hall. The only adornment on the wall is a crucifix. Simple white curtains frame the window...