Word: strapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Knoke's mold was that of most young Germans raised in Hitler's Reich. Born in Hamelin town, the son of a Prussian policeman who believed in the strap (for discipline) and the rifle (for exercise), he was press-ganged into the Hitler Youth and taught that the Führer knows best. When Germany attacked Poland ("to liberate the terrorized Germans"), Knoke wrote in his diary: "The prospect of actually experiencing war rather appeals...
Superintendent Nelms conceded that Louis was "not a bad boy." But he indicated that he saw nothing wrong with using a strap, and he certainly was a man with a conscience. "I spank my own children," said he, "and I'm somewhat ashamed the next morning when [the buttocks] turn blue." Cried Board Chairman George Whitman Jr.: "The state of Georgia has a law abolishing corporal punishment in prisons and on chain gangs. Do you think that this law, applying to hardened criminals, should apply to a partially blind twelve-year-old boy?" Answered Nelms: "The board has never...
...males, meanwhile, have been going through their Saturday rites of the young bulls, as blithe as you please. It is an unavoidable fact, however, that for every teaser there's an ankle strap, a taped up knee or a shoulder brace. She may be guilty, but he is no one to talk...
...style of every ankle strap and every Duke applied in the room is basically the same. The ankle wrap has really no possible variation. At Yale they put on the Duke with the player standing, at Dillon with the player lying down, but it's the same Duke. They both are intended to protect weak ligaments...
...true, is Ann's husband (Zachary Scott), but he is a weakling, and probably couldn't even uphold her shoulder strap in an argument. Four others, escaped convicts, are led by a hard-breathing type (Rodolfo Acosta) whose fondness for silk has nothing to do with its denier. Only the sixth man (Glenn Ford) can keep him from fingering the stuff, because only Ford knows the way through the jungle to safety from the agents of a revolutionary junta who are dashing in pursuit...