Word: celle
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...courtyard, the bodies were being placed in unpainted coffins. A bulldozer was dredging a common grave. The vegetable garden tended by the condemned during their imprisonment burgeoned in the spring sunshine. It could be seen from the cell where Hitler in 1924 wrote Mein Kampf...
...lone cell in the grey prison building, was bitter with a special German kind of bitterness. Granted a stay of execution, Otto Striegel snapped: "Why wasn't I hanged with my comrades...
...favored him with other miracles (in 1468 his prayers saved the town of Sarnen from a conflagration), with the gift of prophecy and with visions. High dignitaries of church & state sought him out in his ravine, where a cell and chapel were finally built to replace his hut of branches and leaves. In 1480 he is credited with saving Switzerland from civil war and possible partition...
...world was the narrow cell in the New Iberia jail, where he waited for the talk to end. Finally it did. Willie had to go back to the chair. His lawyer came to tell him that he thought he could still get another stay, but Willie said: "No, leave it alone. Thank you, but leave it alone. I'm ready...
Before dawn one morning last week, Willie was ready, dressed in his newly pressed Sunday pants. He ate a last meal of catfish and potatoes. At noon the cell door opened. Said Father Charles Hannigan: "We've been practicing walking the way he wants to walk the last mile. Willie says he's going to walk it steady...