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Word: celling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...control points without a security search. Reaching a reception area, one coolly pulled a submachine gun from her bag and the other flashed a pistol as they demanded the release of the two prisoners. A quick-thinking guard grabbed the pistol and pulled Vogel back into a bulletproof cell. But the "lawyers" escaped with Meyer in a Volkswagen minibus that was conspicuously parked near the prison, with three other women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISTS: A Big Catch in Zagreb | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...swirls around blackly shooting out clouds of green and yellow ink amidst sea-shapes like diatoms magnified thousands of times. "Serie Barcelone" is likewise a collection of natural forms of unnatural dimensions and hues. Looking at it is like looking through a microscope at a variety of different cell structures stained orange, green, blue and every other color...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: A Surrealist's Metamorphosis | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...porno king appropriate treatment by watching through a one-way mirror. The night before Thevis was to be returned to Springfield-he had lost the case and was ordered to pay $675,000 to insurance companies and a former peep-show competitor-he was let out of his cell to make a phone call. He never returned. Three hours after he was last seen, someone thought to notify the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Walls Do Not a. . . | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

Lewis Thomas, M.D., cancer specialist and author (Lives of a Cell), on the world: "We do not, in any real way, run the place. It runs itself, and we are a part of the running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 29, 1978 | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...Their ignorance was understandable; the white minority government of his country had done its best to silence him, by restricting his movement and the circulation of his ideas, and by threatening him with detention. Finally, it silenced him in the most permanent way possible: he died on a jail cell floor, one more victim of a system that is as ruthless as it is racist...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Biko: A Man for His People | 5/12/1978 | See Source »

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