Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...watery gruel with chunks of rotten fish (Shukhov was jeered because he refused to eat fish eyes when they were floating free in the soup). The guards made the prisoners undress outside to be frisked, beat them with birch clubs, threw any who talked back into a barely heated "cell," where a ten-day sentence meant a probable case of tuberculosis and 15 days meant certain death...
...After eight years in the camp, he has an animal cunning for finding food and avoiding punishment. He knows when to press forward, when to hang back, whom to be near, whom to avoid. In a complex series of maneuvers, any one of which could land him in the cell, he wangles an extra bowl of soup, some tobacco, and-his triumph-a slice of sausage, which he exultantly swallows in bed: "the brief moment for which a prisoner lives." In a gruesome way, the novel has a happy ending, for Shukhov goes to sleep quite pleased with...
...curriculum and in the nature of the contemporary university by widening international awareness, advancing knowledge, and increasingly sophisticated methods of research. The revolution in nuclear physics came out early in our period. Since the thirties the electron microscope has opened new ways to study the chemistry of the cell. Space engineering has now broken upon us. IN field after field the application of contemporary mathematical and statistical analysis stimulates new research. And since World War II the whole globe has become of exciting interest to scholars in the social sciences and humanities to a degree unknown before. Asia and Africa...
...poison that leads to the formation of a dead ly, strangling membrane across the victim's throat. And this power depends on the microbes' being infected, in their turn, with a tiny particle of nucleic acid-the core of a virus, which has penetrated the bacterial cell. Why should not human cells become cancerous when a similar fragment of viral nucleic acid gets into their chromosomes and causes them to reproduce abnormally? By this reasoning, viruses have been called "bits of heredity in search of a chromosome...
From Plant to Man. It may be, according to Sloan-Kettering's Director Frank L. Horsfall Jr., that there are no special cancer-inducing viruses, but that in the appropriate host and in the appropriate circumstances perhaps any virus can invade the chromosomes of a cell and start the process of abnormal reproduction which we call cancer. A bit of evidence in support of this view came from Sweden's famed Geneticist Albert Levan. He has found breaks or changes in the chromosomes of children recover ing from measles. Though he still has no proof that such changes...