Word: celling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Each of the last two seasons has been capped off by international tours. Two years ago the Classics travelled to Puerto Rico to play the Puerto Rican National Team as well as a local penitentiary squad whose inmates viewed the courtyard spectacle from their cell windows. Last year the team flew to Portugal during spring break to play a national team made up of Portuguese All-Stars...
...wide variety of human diseases, notably cardiovascular disorders and cancer. Two important studies involve examination of the rhesus fetus while it is still in the womb, letting the pregnancy continue and checking hemoglobin changes that occur about the time of birth, which may be significant in relation to sickle-cell anemia...
Macy Koehler, biohazards safety officer for the University, said yesterday that DNA transfer enables researchers to isolate a segment of DNA with specific qualities, mass-produce it, and then study it for such practical mechanisms as insulin production, or cell reproduction...
...evening concert in the gymnasium of the prison's medium-security cell-block unit was a soothing antidote for Soledad's pervasive atmosphere of violence and tension. One section of the prison unit was still locked up after the near-fatal stabbing of a white inmate on Christmas Day. Several days before the concert, 18 men were confined to the maximum-control unit of the penitentiary for insubordination. When Crouch arrived at Soledad with his multiracial band (four whites, five blacks), the chaplain cautioned them uneasily: "In the event of any disturbance, obey the instructions of the custodial...
Transatlantic Blues is about a different purgatory: that clammy conscience-ridden cell between worldly success and a proud otherworldly tradition. Stylistically, the novel is the nonstop confession of Monty (né Pendrid) Chatworth, a British-born American TV interviewer. He is something of an Anglo-American Alexander Portnoy, but with a crucial difference. Portnoy, draped over a psychiatrist's couch, complained that his lust was repugnant to his stern Hebraic morality and that his morality was repugnant to his sexual nature. Chatworth, slumped in his seat high above the Atlantic, confesses to his tape recorder ("Father Sony") that...