Word: disemboweling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...process is not entirely simple. Saxon is a man of considerable charm, vitality and at least surface ability; but he is also something of a maniac. His mania is to charm, dominate and, if possible, destroy every person who falls within his spell. The little improvements he insists on disembowel Eric's play, and Eric himself is so helpless a victim of the charm that Mrs. Busch (nicely played by Susan Hayward) leaves...
What matter if children carve up a pumpkin and set a wobbly candle in the shell? But fear for your life if nations carve up the earth into spheres of influence. Beware the man or nation who tries to disembowel the One World which is the last refuge of our hopes...
Allied observers and Japan's civilians could only speculate on the rest: was Koga killed in the U.S. air and naval raids on Truk and Palau on March 29? Was he intercepted by U.S. fighters en route to some Pacific base? Or did he, as Chungking suggested, honorably disembowel himself presumably in protest against the last naval reshuffle (TIME...
With a bottle of rice wine, a can of kerosene, a sharp knife, he went far into the brush. Fortifying himself with the wine, he sloshed kerosene over the tindery brush, lit it, then made an earnest effort to disembowel himself...