Word: celling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock one morning last week Dr. Moussa Li to Marzuk, 28, a surgeon in Egypt's Jewish Hospital, walked out of his solitary cell in a Cairo prison. As a rabbi intoned Hebrew prayers, the executioner seized the white-faced surgeon, cuffed his hands in leather, bound his eyes in black cloth, led him into the death chamber, closed the door, and snapped the gallows trap. Half an hour later, 26-year-old Samuel Azar, a teacher, walked the same path of no return, and the ancient and endless quarrels of the Middle East were washed with the fresh...
...brutally shuns him as a new boy. Lonely, arrogant. Stern curls up with Das Kapital. When his father begs him to take an interest in the family department store, Stern tonguelashes him about the exploitation of the workers. After that, the moves are inexorable and a little pat: Commie cell organizer, a training stint in Moscow, the Cominform, the return to Prague as the party's dreaded "Grey Eminence." He has a direct line to the Kremlin, until the line is ruthlessly twisted around his neck. For long stretches. Author Wechsberg takes his eyes off Slansky-Stern to sketch...
...public laugh of the troubled new year was provided by haughty ex-President Arnulfo Arias (no kin to Dickie), who as Remón's ancient enemy was jailed after the killing but freed upon Miró's confession. Arnulfo had been confined, he complained, in a cell reserved for "official prostitutes." Said he, "I didn't have the energy to clear up just what was meant by 'official...
Their theory: stress sets off a destructive chain reaction among the body cells, with histamine acting as the destructive agent. Each cell is in a membrane envelope, and as long as the membrane is relatively impermeable, the cell functions normally. Under stress, however, the membrane starts to deteriorate. Histamine, which is normally present in a cell but behaves only so long as the cell is healthy, is violently released and stimulated by the cell breakdown. It attacks the disintegrating cell, which swells and bursts, liberating still more histamine to attack neighboring cells. Over long periods of stress, the spreading destruction...
Present antihistamine drugs have only a temporary effect against the cell-weakening histamine. Eyring and Dougherty's hope for a cure: a "ground substance" (gelatinous matter surrounding blood capillaries and body cells) that the body uses to block less severe histamine assaults. A stronger, man-made drug like it, they hope, may stop the chain reaction, localize cell damage and bring stress-burdened modern man longer life...