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Word: celling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something was done. Though Kelly's special privileges as a political prisoner were ordered officially canceled, well-wishers streamed in and out of his cell as they always had, with no regard for regular visiting hours. There did seem to be an unusual number of women. But in accord with prison custom, the women were passed without inspection. When the last of them had left, a guard looked in Kelly's cell. Kelly was gone. Behind him he left a telltale box of cosmetics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Let Jorge Do It | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...Portland, Me., nabbed for disorderly conduct, Genevieve Lynch, 24, was being ushered into a cell when she tore the badge off the arresting patrolman, grabbed his tie and tried to choke him when he went after it, bit the leg of a second cop rushing in for the rescue, dug her teeth into the hand of a lieutenant who hoped to rescue his two casualties, was finally subdued and put in a cell by a fourth policeman who hurriedly slammed the cell door shut-square on his left hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 7, 1957 | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...loving wife (Barbara Lang), Arnie communicates his plan: let his brother jump the wall of the prison's industrial area, which is lightly guarded during the night, and hide in a stack of crates. Next night Arnie will hide in the crates while his brother sleeps in the cell; during the night Arnie will dig a man-sized hole in the ground near the prison wall, cover it with boards and cover the boards with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: House of Numbers | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Next night the brother will escape, and the night after that. Arnie will hide in the hole he has dug. A short time after the nightly cell count has revealed the prisoner's absence, brother Palance will kidnap, at the point of a wooden pistol, a motorist on a highway near the prison, and later ditch the car in a residential district, where Arnie's wife will pick him up. As soon as the news of the kidnaping reaches the police, they will assume that the prisoner has escaped, and relax precautions. Whereupon Prisoner Palance will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: House of Numbers | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...like a one-man beachhead in dodging the stilettos of a murderous band of toughs who jump him in a sleazy Roman hotel. This Donnybrook provokes the most sensible twist of the entire plot: a Roman police captain, Mature's own colleague, orders him tossed into a cell in protective custody. The cop's undebatable reasoning: criminals are a much greater menace to Mature than he is to them. If only bungling Vic had been kept safe in the pokey, Villain Howard and his spectacular doxy Anita would doubtless have been brought to justice several reels sooner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 19, 1957 | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

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