Word: slattern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dirty-legged slattern in the prisoner's box squinted nervously at the six U.S. officers on the Munich dais. In staccato tones, U.S. Brigadier General Emil Kiel read her sentence: "Use Koch-life imprisonment." Justice had caught up with the redheaded, 40-year-old Witch of Buchenwald, who had prisoners at the Nazi concentration camp flogged at her pleasure and who had made gloves and lamp shades from their skins after they died of torture...
...titles that painters put on their pictures often make no more sense than the paintings themselves-and frequently seem to have nothing to do with the case. A gleaming, mackerel-in-the-moonlight exception is Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, who called his painting of a varicose-veined slattern Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida, and underlined his intricate picture of a moldering mortuary door That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (TIME...
...Yellow signs reading: TROOPS, KEEP OUT hung on fence posts and trees. These signs marked farms whose owners had refused the Army permission to cross their land. One officer, seeking such permission before the troops arrived, had the tallest yarn of the maneuvers. Turned down by a backwoods slattern, he inquired: "Madam, don't you know that Louisiana is at war with Texas? And don't you want Louisiana to win the war?" Said the lady of the house: "I sure do. Give me that paper to sign...