Word: racks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. By Marie Marguerite Louise Gisele LaFleche, 39, known to fans as Singer Gisele MacKenzie: Robert Shuttleworth, 52, her manager; on grounds that he beat her and kept her "emotionally on the rack"; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...
...three days the marine tramped bootless through Viet Cong territory. Except to offer him food or water, Dodson's escort ignored him. By day his hands were bound in green nylon cord; at night he was tied hand and foot to a bamboo rack. Passing through villages, people turned out in droves to gape and offer water, candy, cigarettes and bananas. Only in a recently bombed hamlet were the villagers hostile, pushing close in an angry, chanting crowd until the chief arrived to disperse them. Four times, English-speaking Vietnamese appeared. Each asked Dodson's name and told...
Worms like Sticky Pearls. Outwardly, Sylvia's psychosis has standard Freudian trimmings. Her father, born in the Polish town of Grabow in East Prussia, became a professor of entomology at Boston University and is presented in her poetry as an intellectual tyrant with "a love of the rack and the screw." The mother of the heroine in The Bell Jar, an autobiographical novel published in England just before Sylvia's death, is described as a metallic New England schoolmarm. Little Sylvia tried to be Daddy's darling. At three she knew the Latin names of hundreds...
...love of the rack and the screw. And I said I do, I do. So daddy, I'm finally through. The black telephone's off at the root, The voices just can't worm through...
...evidence to charge the suspect. Today the rules are said to be widely ignored, and with crime soaring, some eminent Britons argue that the privilege against self-incrimination is outdated. The privilege does have old-fashioned roots. It originated in repugnance for such long-vanished torture methods as the rack and the screw. Now that British police are civilized, say the critics, why forbid them merely to ask questions-thus stacking the odds in favor of criminals...