Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lichfield prisoners. Men had been beaten there with fists and rifle butts till they were unconscious, then revived and ordered to clean up their own blood. Prisoners who complained of hunger were gorged with three meals at a time, then dosed with castor oil. Hours of calisthenics, of standing "nose and toes" to a guardhouse wall were routine punishments. Purple Heart veterans were deliberately jabbed in their old wounds. There was even a ghastly, sardonic slogan among Lichfield guards: "Shoot a prisoner and be made a sergeant...
...never practiced (except for wartime duty in the Navy), but kept on studying for years while he collected more degrees and diplomas. Three times after they had sentenced him to death, he escaped from the Nazis. He had a weather-browned, bearded face, black eyes, a long, pointed nose. The Maquis called him Dr. Satan...
Well might Hermann Göring wince. Once head of Germany's biggest cartel, he had Naziism's keenest nose for sniffing out other people's profitable businesses, and its most carefree hand in grabbing them for his huge Hermann Göring Works. Now he had been surpassed. But Göring, like most Germans, had not yet heard of the new economic titan...
...girl-friends distract you in the evening. There is a soda-dispenser in the lobby and there is the sickening smell of popcorn pervading the establishment at all times. But despite it all, it manages to resurrect the Marx Brothers about every other week, and with plugs in your nose and blinkers on your eyes, they are well worth an hour of your Reading Period time...
Step by step, the Army was approaching the push-button millennium when giant military rockets will travel thousands of miles cargoed with wholesale death. Recently, at White Sands, N.M., a German V-2 roared up 104 miles, 20.5 miles higher than the previous record. In its nose it carried an armored capsule packed with instruments for observing pressures, temperatures and cosmic rays...