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Word: undresser (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...streets till the guards returned. In another town his neck was bound with a wet rope which almost choked him as it dried and shrank. Another rope was made to trail from under his gown like a tail. To humiliate them both, the Reds once forced him to undress before Sister Joan Marie. She caught a glimpse of Bishop Ford for the last time in February of this year, the month the Reds now say he died. His once dark hair was completely white, his body so emaciated that another prisoner was carrying him "like a sack of potatoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On the King's Highway | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...brother and I were left alone in our cell until evening. Then cops came, doused us with buckets of ice-cold water, and went away again, leaving us soaked and shivering. A few hours later, they came back . . . They made us undress, and blindfolded us. I was taken to a basement room and interrogated about the dynamitings. When I denied that I was involved in any way, the interrogator slapped my face. Others beat me across the legs and back with what felt like stockings filled with sand ... I was bent over a small table and tied down. I heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: The Ordeal of Mario Quinonez | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

Thirty-two different books, most of them featuring women in various stages of undress and men in various stages of emotion were reported as "selling quite well" by stand proprietors. Already sold out were "The American Collegiate Dictionary" and "Sex Habits of the American Female...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Novel Display of Pocket Books Thrills Funsters in Dining Hall | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...embellished other rooms of the villa. Probably the most startling discovery was the mosaic floor of what archaeologists guess was once a girls' gymnasium. Theresa laurel-crowned prizewinner and her willowy companions disport themselves in skimpy woolen garb-an unmistakable preview of today's "Bikini" style of undress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: PICTURES ON THE FLOOR | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...first order that came to Zbigniew Stypulkowski, Polish underground leader in his cell in Moscow's Lubianka prison, made him laugh. A handsome, strapping girl of about 20 entered the cell, yapped one word: "Undress." She had to repeat it twice before he took her seriously, stripped self-consciously to the buff. Poking about clinically, she asked, "Have you syphilis?" and then stalked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Flesh Is Weak | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

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