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Word: sweatboxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...throw one party for lieutenant colonels and above, ¶ He insisted on so much chicken-in general and saluting in particular that Leghorn G.I.s had nicknamed their main street "Bent Arm Boulevard." ¶ He maintained a Disciplinary Training Camp at Pisa, where G.I. prisoners "get the sweatbox for making a wrong turn. [It] is full of delightful [punishment] routine like cleaning a mess kit with a needle, or walking for hours squatting on the hams and making duck noises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Courthouse | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Ever since the President returned from Christmas in Missouri, his personal physician, Colonel Wallace Graham of Kansas City, has kept him on a rigid reducing program. As soon after 5 p.m. as possible, the President pops into a sweatbox beside the White House pool, stews for a few minutes. Then he is let out to face a long, canvas-covered board, slanted at a 45° angle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hold That Waistline | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...with The Girl, he is unexpectedly robbed, stuffed into a freight car headed south, railroaded into a prison chain gang, and officially pronounced dead. In prison he learns the value of making people laugh, returns to Hollywood a sadder & wiser director (especially after a punishing sojourn in the prison sweatbox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 9, 1942 | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

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