Word: rackingly
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...junior common rooms, not one as in most of the old Houses. One should be the traditional combination of magazine-rack and lounge. The other should be suitable for House plays, concerts, lectures, readings, and seminars. The House should contain at least one seminar room and more practice rooms than most Houses now offer...
...young man browsed throuh the rack of dresses and held up one that caught...
Stuttgart Salesman Wilhelm Boger, 57, onetime chief of the Auschwitz intelligence system, boasted that the place had the lowest escape rate of any Nazi concentration camp. Boger was the inventor of a torture rack known as the "Boger swing," in which the victim-bound hand and foot and swinging from a beam-was whipped, often until he died. "We helped those too tired to go on," Boger blandly explained. The most defiant defendant was a burly ex-butcher and male nurse, Oswald Kaduk, 57, who was charged with breaking the necks of elderly prisoners by standing on a walking stick...
Deep in thought, a former Kennedy aide strode through the White House to ward the President's office, then stopped short. On a rack just outside of the oval office hung a big Stetson hat. Sec retaries, pretty but unfamiliar, bustled around through the anterooms. The doors to the President's office, nearly always open when John F. Kennedy was there, were closed tight. Inside that office, as the aide well knew, was Lyndon Baines Johnson, probably at that very moment speaking softly into a green telephone...
Real objects and real people are enigmas to Billy. He loathes his job at Shadrack and Duxbury, an undertaking firm. He yearns to go off to London and become a scriptwriter before Mr. Shad-rack closes in on him about the postage money he has pilfered. Girls are a problem too. He is engaged to Rita and Barbara, but loves his beatnik playmate Liz, portrayed by Julie Christie, an actress so brimful of careless charm that she parlays a few brief scenes into instant stardom...