Word: strapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Near Atlanta, a group of Ku Klux Klansmen tied a young construction worker named Joseph Berry to a tree, flogged him with a leather strap until blood vessels burst...
...slum neighborhoods, the runt gets picked on. "I had to fight to stay alive," Billy recalls, "and I always lost." But he always came back for more. One day he came back with a heavy lock dangling at the end of a strap. He knocked out two of his attackers and the rest beat it. Billy learned the lesson: plainly, all men are not created equal-but there are equalizers...
...bright spot of the first program (none too bright despite the high-octane foolishness of guest star Bob Hope) was Evelyn's choice phrasing of The Toorie on His Bonnet, Her mink-soft voice is as calculatedly intimate as a dropped shoulder strap. But voice, as many a supper-clubman knows, isn't the half of Evelyn. The rest is the allure which she exudes as unfailingly as a perfume factory...
...Hope for Strap-Hangers...
...that infraction, even though school authorities had been warned of his condition, Anthony Lombardi was stripped, tied down and beaten three times with a broad leather strap. When he complained that he was sick again, nobody believed him. But last week he was under an oxygen tent in Colorado General Hospital...