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Word: celling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jail, he lived like the prince of ponces. For 56? a day, he was able under British prison regulations to get a cell with a soft bed, a carpet on the concrete floor, curtains on the barred window, an armchair, and another prisoner to clean up after him. During the three weeks Stephen Ward was in jail, John Profumo had been disgraced, Evgeny Ivanov expelled from the Communist Party and packed off to a Russian mental hospital, and Christine Keeler successfully screen-tested for the proposed "dramatized documentary" of her life. But last week Artist-Osteopath Ward, the fourth member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: While the Prisoner Sketched | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...times brilliantly conveys what he calls the "innocent malevolence of the Nordic mind." In prison, Ruprecht's brother Alfried is tortured with exquisite science. His torturers, wearing rubber gloves, use surgical instruments to make delicate incisions about his body, taking care not to injure his face. "The cell," Alfried marvels, "was pervaded by a sense of conviction similar to that which fills a hospital theater during a prolonged and difficult operation." But he also notices with dismay that the chief torturer always has cuts on his face from vigorous shaving. Finally the torturer wearies of finesse, grabs a seltzer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Heart of Darkness | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...fishpond with a little waterfall. The sound of the waterfall is picked up by a microphone and piped into the house; the owner likes to sleep to its music. In back of the house is a 25-ft. flagpole hooked up to a motor with a photoelectric cell. When the sun rises over the Arizona desert, its light activates the cell, which sets off the motor-and up to the top of the pole runs Old Glory. At sunset, the flag automatically comes down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: This President Thing | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

Recently, Amos' research has revealed that animal cells can receive messenger RNA from other cells and translate the messages so that the cell may produce proteins which it ordinarily is unable to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Gives Tenure Post to Negro | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

...S.P.E.C.T.R.E.-the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion), and set out to rule the world. When 007 finds him, he is about to "topple" a U.S. rocket carrying an astronaut. 007 tries to stop him, but No sneers evilly and shuts Bond up in a warm, dark cell. To escape, 007 has to crawl through a steaming-hot tube about a mile long. He comes out limp. Doctor No leaps upon him, snarling. Locked together, they reel toward the incandescent core of an atomic furnace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hairy Marshmallow | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

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