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...Southern France during the summer of 1944, The Victors treats of a few captured members of the Resistance and of their Vichyite captors. For about half the way, it is a chronicle of torture: the desperate bravery of the Maquis in refusing to talk, the fiendish brutality of the Vichyites in trying to make them. The prisoners, afraid that a youngster among them will sooner or later be tormented into blabbing, strangle...
...seemed that these improvements had only increased the hoots, catcalls, and cries of anguish amid which he has done his work. The New Yorker is a creature who feels that the weather ought to be regulated rather than predicted: there is evidence that he believes Parry controls a fiendish mechanism which causes rain whenever he plans a weekend at the beach, or snow when he parks his automobile in the street...
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...fiendish test had been devised by the National Association of Secondary-School Principals. Contestants were top students in 1,362 U.S. high schools...
...same way out. We have lived through ten years of hell-the most diabolical "witches' sabbath" ever put on since the beginning of recorded time. Thirty million people, men, women & children, have been starved, tortured, shot, blown to bits, frozen, gassed*-murdered by every conceivable method of fiendish cruelty -mostly at the hands of "civilized, enlightened, cultured, progressive, democratic Christian nations." And the end is not yet. We have with us many who talk and write glibly of the coming atomic war with Russia...