Word: dungeon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indians: "And rrrememberr also, Carries, the Bolsheviks may not be rrright, but they prrresent a hope. To the rrragged and the hungrry and the sick of hearrt they prrresent a hope!" Carlos remembered it a long time, especially after the dictator's police threw him in a dungeon and his wife traded herself to Dictator Ronca in exchange for his freedom...
...neck-deep in its lavish costumes. He is also once again a rascal with a 14-karat heart and a 1-karat mind. His intentions are high, true and gallant. His planning could at best be called faulty; it usually ends with Errol on the cold side of the dungeon walls and the villains holding the keys...
...been making weapons of war in the massive vaults beneath the Houses of Parliament, where in 1605 Guy Fawkes was caught among the 36 gunpowder kegs with which he planned to blow up Britain's lawmakers. From 9 in the morning till 9 at night the air-conditioned dungeon hums to the sound of precision machines. Last year the volunteers, garbed in white knee-length coats of a royal ordnance factory, worked 74,000 manhours. This year they plan to work at least as much on secret submarine devices for use against the Japanese...
...with the great nations the solutions which France judges necessary to the settlement of this war and the organization of the world to come. In this matter, the support and aid given to the Committee by the Consultative Assembly will be the voice of a nation rising from its dungeon...
Olda was put into a flooded dungeon. For six weeks she was not allowed to change her clothes. Then the Nazis said she was a spy. They put sharp tongs on her right arm and tore the flesh. They refused her medical attention unless she gave up her "military secrets." From then on indecencies alternated with the dungeon. She cleaned her wounds with the drip from the ceiling...