Word: tormentor
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...disordered brain, as his body's pace began suddenly to slacken. His unusual exertions were catching up with him--and so was Biff Bundie. On the steps of the Biology Building, Karandas finally ground to a halt; and there, magnificently, he turned slowly to face and address his tormentor. "I do not know who you are, sir," he wheezed in a high-pitched whine quite foreign to his normally well modulated tones. "But I must tell you what I think of your unspeakable conduct...
Alain Delon, who established his reputation as Rocco in Rocco and His Brothers, turns in an impressive performance as the debonair murderer lusting for "le meilleur." The entire design to murder Phillipe develops unspoken in his eyes, where greed and hatred of a tormentor become obviously irresistible...
...long last, the grand paladins of television confronted their tormentor, FCC Chairman Newton ("Wasteland") Minow, as the FCC last week came to the scheduled closing round of its three-year investigation of television. First man to step up to the microphone, according to the script, was to be CBS's suave President Dr. Frank Stanton. But in a prologue that could turn into a theme, the FCC first put on the stand one of its economists, Dr. Hyman H. Goldin, who in staggering detail spun out the story of network TV's rich growth from earnings...
Tokyo cameraman assigned to catch him at the beginning of the new Year of the Tiger (the sign of the Oriental zodiac under which Yoshida was born almost 84 years ago). Unpredictable as ever, Japan's most durable postwar statesman welcomed his tormentor graciously, even brushed aside a retainer's horrified protests to pose on an appropriate hunting trophy...
...rejoining the floundering squad at midseason, plunged like a panther into the first "bad show" of his three years in England. Smarting from a series of thumping tackles by an exuberant opponent, West Point's 1958 All-America halfback abandoned pursuit of the ball for pursuit of his tormentor, and vengefully set about choking the aggressiveness out of him. But though spectators decorously booed Dawkins' unsportsmanlike lapse, there was wide rejoicing over the post-match shandy (a concoction of beer and lemonade) that the hitherto irreproachable Yank had at last displayed some evidence of human frailty...