Word: celling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become vulnerable first. As the body tries to conserve heat for vital internal organs in bitter cold, it reduces the flow of warming blood to the extremities. Eventually, if the temperature in the tissue drops low enough, tiny ice crystals begin to form in the watery spaces between the cells. Expanding outward in all directions, the ice ruptures cell membranes and kills the tissue, which turns white, stiff and insensitive to touch...
...heredity may be at least as important as any other factor in causing cancer. Indeed, as long ago as the 17th century, doctors noticed that a predisposition to cancer seems to run in certain families. Nonetheless, the researchers conceded that despite great progress in unraveling the workings of the cell's DNA-the molecule of heredity-the genetic tendency toward cancer remains one of medicine's major mysteries...
...watched it all avidly on the cell-block TV at Jeff City. He reacted as if King's remarks were directed at him personally. He boiled when King came on the tube. He began to call him Martin "Lucifer" King and Martin Luther "Coon." It got so that the very sight of King would galvanize...
...heeding Jesus' call to "sell what you have," he disposed of his two houses, two cars, two pharmacies, gave the proceeds to the poor and, keeping only a cloak, devoted himself to prayer and asceticism. He is out of the world and yet still of it. From his cell, where he lives mainly on bread and water, he has written more than 40 books and pamphlets, most of them scholarly books on church affairs, directed the total rehabilitation of the decaying monastery and begun a reformation of Coptic monastic life so profound that he was one of three nominees...
...Federal Court Judge W. (for Wendell) Arthur Garrity Jr. reaches a conclusion, he sticks to it. He deliberated for more than two years before deciding that conditions at Boston's dilapidated Charles Street jail violated inmates' rights-and then only after he spent a night in a cell. He took 15 months to consider evidence in a suit brought against the School Committee before ruling, in June 1974, that black children in Boston have been systematically deprived of their constitutional right to an equal education. Ever since, in a series of increasingly tough orders that culminated last week...