Word: severance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because the P.A. system blared the victims' screams throughout the cell blocks. A variant was the Pulpo (Octopus), a many-armed electrical device attached by means of small screws inserted into the skull. Trujillo's men also employed a rubber "collar" that could be tightened enough to sever a man's head, an 18-in. electrified rod ("the Cane") for shocking the genitals, nail extractors, leather-thonged whips, small rubber hammers, scissors for castration...
Wainer, who is editor of Student Council, a magazine published by the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, was addressing the Harvard Students for a Democratic Society in Sever Hall. He eventually admitted that there had been "personal injustices" in Cuba since the Revolution, but attributed them to "military pressure exerted on Cuba by the United States...
While many people chuckled over the Lampoon's double-barrelled joke, others steamed. Among the latter was the Princeton Board of Athletic Control, which two days later voted unanimously to sever athletic relations with Harvard in all sports for an indefinite period of time...
ESPERANTO CLUB will conduct an organizational meeting and language lesson in Sever 30 at 7:30 p.m. All invited...
Stylistically, Sartre and Mills may have altered their approaches too much, but Matthews has adjusted his too little. The four-paragraph clusters of the editorial writer sever many logical threads; and time and again there is a relapse into philosophical speculation and repetitive generalizations about the responsibility of the reporter...