Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What they saw behind a cluster of birches was a simple, one-story New England house painted barnred, a modest vegetable garden, and?100 yards and across a stream from the house?a little concrete cell with a skylight. The cell contains a fireplace, a long table with a typewriter, books and a filing cabinet. Here the pale man usually sits, sometimes writing quickly, other times throwing logs into the fire for hours and making long lists of words until he finds the right one. The writer is Jerome David Salinger, and almost all his fictional characters seem more real...
Future Americans may be the offspring of disabled or even long-dead fathers who foresightedly left their "germ cells" deep-frozen in an underground bank. Future parents may be able to leaf through a germ-cell catalogue and pick the father of their next child on the basis of "personifications of their own ideals-the generally admired primary virtues of high character, keen all-round intelligence, and sound physique," and such traits as "a joyful disposition, musical proclivities, aptness at repartee, rapid calculation, courage or endurance...
...Moscow. Soon Pravda was sniping at the "nonproletarian enemies of the working class in the German party," and soon Ulbricht's enemies were purged. It was time for a major party overhaul; tough, conscientious Walter Ulbricht got the job. Comrade Ulbricht took on the name Genosse Zelle (Comrade Cell), began atomizing the easygoing Communist cliques into tight little cells of neighborhood half-dozens who were strangers to one another...
...then Paris. In between, there were the months in civil war-torn Spain when, from his base at Albacete, he took on the OGPU-assigned task of purging the West European "Trotskyites," i.e.. anti-Stalinists. What made Walter Ulbricht famous in Spain was his ingenious torture chamber, a cell of granite blocks too small for a man to stand...
...19th century, 400-cell fortress-penitentiary maintained at an annual cost of more than $67,500 to keep just three inmates. The others: former Hitler Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach, former Nazi Production Czar Albert Speer...