Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the G. P. U.'s sharpest critics do not suggest that resort is had, except in the most urgent cases, to "taking the glove off." This is supposed to consist in fixing the arm of the man being questioned in such a position that the hand is immersed in water. The water is then boiled. It is asserted that after a time the flesh of the hand can be drawn off like a glove...