Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interrogation at No. 19 Moellergaten went on, the prosecutors tried a new persuasion: wide metal cuffs, slipped around wrist and knee, with a wing-nut attached, to press against an inner cuff like a brake band. When a pipe-length was applied to the wing nut for leverage, bones cracked like walnuts. With care, occasional recesses and dashes of cold water in the face, the pressure could be prolonged up to 48 hours. Gestapoman Rediess hoped his trick would serve to get the address of every illegal printing plant in Norway. Outside the muffling walls, the unwitting crowds continued...
Thus, in his Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg, Poet William Wordsworth solemnized the deaths of Poet-Critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Essayist Charles Lamb. Inhabitants of London's historic Inner Temple saw Lamb in a somewhat different context. Sometimes the door of his house near the Thames would open, and out would come Essayist Lamb and his sister Mary, carrying a strait jacket, and quietly crying. All Inner Temple Lane knew that meant that Mary was about to go insane again, and that Charles was taking her to the safety of the local asylum. They also...
Over France a Mosquito pilot spotted two twin-engined Heinkel bombers flying close formation, and dived on them for the kill. But as he swept into gun range and opened fire, he gasped and blinked. The two bombers were one, joined together along the inner wing structures, with a fifth engine installed at the joint...
Some Congressmen think the President has been needled into baiting them by the White House Inner Circle: Harry Hopkins, Sam Rosenman, Felix Frankfurter et al. Last week they were privately blaming the ideas in the tax veto message on Treasury Counsel Randolph Paul, the words on Judge Rosenman. The facts: the message was no hastily okayed product of a Presidential ghost, no result of a sudden fit of Presidential temper. Mr. Roosevelt had been poring over the document for more than a week, weighing its ideas, sifting its language, arguing it with many an adviser. Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson...
Then they started a hazardous 60-mile run up the fjord, delicately slipping by every known form of trap, net and guard until they reached the inner anchorage...