Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind the turreted greystone walls of Birmingham's Winson Green prison, the night guard made his regular 15-minute check, looking through the "judas hole" in the door of the maximum security cell where the lights burned all the time. He was satisfied to see the prisoner lying under his blanket, eyes closed, chest gently rising and falling. It was 3:04 a.m. and all was quiet...
...making his round, a team of probably three men was propping a ladder against the 20-foot wall outside. Swinging down inside on a rope ladder they had brought along, the determined crew dashed across 20 yards of open space and up the steps to the rear of cell block...
Khider, one of the nine "historic chiefs" of the National Liberation Front, had shared a prison cell with Ben Bella during the dark days of the Algerian revolution, and lent his considerable political skills to Ben Bella in his rise to power in the F.L.N. Breaking with Ben Bella at the cataclysmic party congress of April 1963, Khider went into intermittent exile, but until this week was reluctant to endorse armed rebellion against the regime. At a Paris press conference held in an abandoned class room on the Rue de Babylone, Khider broke once and for all with Ben Bella...
Taken to court to hear the charges against the family, Son Bill did not help matters by locking his legs around a table and howling: "I won't go back to that cell." As six policemen carried him out of the courtroom, Bill yelled at Judge Joseph Finnerty: "You Christian! You Catholic!" The judge promptly added a contempt-of-court charge to the list of Bill's other offenses...
...Disney studio during its most creative period, Hubley drew the "Rites of Spring" sequence for Fantasia. After the war he supervised production of the UPA greats, including Tell-tale Heart and In Henry's Backyard, as well as McGoo and McBoing-boing. And he has pioneered the development of cell "animage" techniques for graphically rendering human motion and spatial depth...