Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy's assassination, there seems little doubt that he suffered a severe emotional trauma. On Sunday morning, as police prepared to transfer Lee Oswald from headquarters to the county jail, Ruby eased himself into a crowd of newsmen, waited till Oswald was brought down from his fourth-floor cell. Then he stepped up, stuck out his revolver and, as millions of televiewers watched, killed Oswald with one shot. That act, he said later, made him think he was "looking on history." He told his examiners that he thought: "I am above everybody. They cannot move...
...tense silence until-22 hours after they had been handed the case for a verdict-the jurors returned to say that they could not agree. Circuit Judge Leon Hendrick declared a mistrial, and Beckwith, with nary a smirk nor a smile, got up and went back to his cell...
...arrested on the charge that he had tried to pass himself off as Chinese-which would have been a neat trick considering his entirely un-Sinic appearance. The inspector who picked him up was "charming, really charming," reported Wilde later. Less charming was the small, airless, bug-infested cell in which Wilde was stripped of all his clothes-even his glasses-and kept without food or water for 14 hours. "It was impossible to sleep," recalls Wilde. "In a cell next door there seemed to be a madman who yelled all night. It is amazing how soon one becomes conscious...
...with generals." For a few months the Germans kept Kir on as town overseer-until they discovered that he had put municipal employees to work forging false identity cards for escaped prisoners of war. He was convicted on charges of aiding the Resistance, spent 57 days in a death cell. When he kept up his work with the underground after his release, the Germans sent French collaborators to kill him; Kir survived only because a bullet aimed at his heart hit a thick notebook in his chest pocket...
Before the experiment started, Sloan-Kettering doctors satisfied themselves there was no danger that any of the subjects would contract cancer. What the doctors wanted to measure was the rate of cancer-cell rejection. But the fact that patients were not told the exact nature of the injections made the resulting outcry understandable...