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Word: curmodex (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chapter, Wat and Simsa use code words when planning the school's curriculum, to disguise its purpose. Here, the language of death is couched in apparently harmless acronyms: CURMODEX for 'Curriculum in Modern Execution,' GENTO for 'General Torture,' HANAP and TINA for 'hanging apparatus' and 'guillotine', respectively. A proposed weekly schedule contains such course topics as CURMODEX, 'computing voltage (by both methods) and practice with simulator; PSYCH, 'torture at Christmas time' or 'importance of humor...

Author: By Laura K. Jereski, | Title: Torture and Taboo | 3/19/1981 | See Source »

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