Word: supplee
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Gestapo Chief Wilhelm Rediess decided to change his tactics. He told his bullies to skip the traditional cooling off period, the hours when the weak collapse through fear, but the strong steel themselves for the coming ordeal. His Gestapomen went to work immediately with clubs, pipe-lengths, supple whips.
In TIME (Jan. 3) "On the supple, affable shoulders of . . ."
Norte y Sur. Through the intricate details of Persons and Places, and by way of them, the vitality of the Spanish-American heritage glows through the supple prose. The 262 pages of the book (another volume is to appear, and war conditions interfered with this one) are packed with accounts...
General Dwight David Elsenhower will direct the main assault from Britain. On the supple, affable shoulders of the 53-year-old American will fall the toughest job of military coordination since Marshal Ferdinand Foch took supreme command over 1918's Western Front.
As Iago, José Ferrer was no longer dwarfed by Robeson, but a proper foil. Too mild a villain last year from not wanting to be too melodramatic a one, Ferrer now is supple, mettlesome, lightly Mephistophelean-a virtuoso who lays bare the workings of Iago's fiendish mind...