Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the preparatory period. I wallowed in the dirt and filth; I was purposely kept unshaven and denied haircuts to the point where I was filthy as a tramp. I [was kept] under the constant surveillance of a guard who was never more than perhaps ten yards away, and who at night would awaken me at least hourly by shining his flashlight in my eyes until I woke up ... During the exhaustion phase. I was made to write continuously, over a period of about three weeks, from early morning until dark, always against a deadline, under pressure of two interrogators...
Coffin Torture. For three years, Merlino, 49, and Faticati, 45, lived in cold, dirt and hunger they had never known in Naples. There were 10,000 prisoners in the camp, crowded like cattle, 40 or 50 to a room. They got only potato soup, carrots and 200 grams of bread for their daily meal. Their letters, to their families and Communist friends in Italy, to Hungarian Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi, were not delivered. One day Faticati had a nervous breakdown; he screamed and cried for his four children. When the guards came, Merlino went to defend his comrade...
...Warner) takes Hollywood back for the third time to the soil-pay dirt, that is-of Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prizewinning 1924 novel. However, the ground has been pretty well cropped-over by now, and the corn cannot be strongly recommended for human consumption. Jane Wyman, nonetheless, injects an attractive glow into the pious heroine, the pure little rich girl who bears poverty, hard work and a doltish husband so meekly that, as would appear, her sufferings later give her the unchallenged right to run her son's life for him. Sterling Hayden is convincingly uninteresting...
...reconstruction project, the husky King delighted local workers by seizing a shovel and making the dirt fly with the best of them. In a hospital, Frederika held the hand of a dejected soldier whose head was so swathed in bandages that only his eyes peeped through. The Queen listened quietly to his fears about being scarred and ugly, and answered all his worries with a radiant smile. "You could never be ugly," she told him, "not with such beautiful eyes...
Medal-of-Honor Major General William F. Dean, 54, brushing aside rumors that he might retire ("I'm not an old man yet"), flew from his California home to Washington for reassignment and a minor eye operation. Korean dirt, dust and wind had caused a skin growth on the cornea of his left eye. It began two months before the Communists captured him, he said. "You can't blame the Reds...