Word: fiendishness
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...Anesthetist began his nocturnal visitations two weeks ago, mainly concentrating his fiendish attacks on women. One said a smell like gardenias "made her legs tingle." Another said a fat man had squirted perfume into her bedroom. Mrs. Carl Cordes discovered a damp pink cloth on her back porch. She sniffed it and immediately "felt as though a charge of electricity had gone through me." She was taken to a hospital with burns and temporary paralysis...
...part of every German to accept any post of responsibility under the Allied military authorities. A Nazi equivalent of our word 'quisling' will be invented and whispered from mouth to mouth, and when one or two of them have been found beaten to death with the most fiendish tortures, every 'good' German will know what it means...
...Commander Harry C. ("Butch") Butcher, and wound up with an artless: "But of course I like it. ... After all, it's really women's work, isn't it?" For once, smooth-tongued Butch was speechless. Someone told Tooey about it, and he spread the story with fiendish glee...
...girls way hell-&-gone over the ocean, surrounded by people who talked foreign languages ("You'd be surprised at how the French can get on your nerves"), with Japs and Germans shooting at them, and with the very ground dangerous and explosive: "The Germans . . . use all the devilish, fiendish devices of war, things that we don't dare use. Poisoned mines, ones that bounce up and spread death for 25 yards; steel darts, that will go right through you; castorators, a nice little gadget that when you step on it blows your groin...
...wives, sweethearts and friends Men in the armed forces are traditionalist wary of letting their female friends join up. There fears range from worried over the constitutional damage that Navy discipline might wreak on their frail little loved ones to fixations about the girls treatment in the hands of fiendish...