Word: tormentor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pound out a plea for freedom. Annie promptly wrestles her back to her seat. Again and again and again, the child escapes and is captured. Again and again, Annie meets the near-demented girl on her own level, exchanging wild slaps and pokes. Still Helen breaks away, feinting her tormentor out of position, crawling under the table, perching on her chair with a kind of prim furor, and refusing to eat. With only the exhausted movement of hip or hand, Annie expresses the depths of her combined determination and despair. She is reduced to a disheveled wreck, chest heaving, shoulders...
...hecklers twice howled down Tory Macmillan's attempts at street-corner speeches in Scotland and Yorkshire. And at Swansea, as Macmillan walked wearily toward a railroad station entrance after a seven-speech day, a woman bystander suddenly assailed him with a loud "Boo-oo-oo." Rounding on his tormentor, the Prime...
Near week's end the committee adopted the only practical defense against the tormentor: it would go on with its work. Members voted 17-13 to keep in the bill most of the provisions Zagri opposed, even revised the hot-cargo section to make sure that it would control Teamsters without forcing legitimate strikers to go through picket lines. Scheduled for final committee vote this week-and near enough to the Senate version to have a good chance of becoming law-the labor reform bill was a stronger piece of legislation than it would have been without Zagri...
This opera is the one set in the Tower of London, where Colonel Fairfax, the handsome hero, almost loses his head, and Jack Point, the jester, loses his girl instead. A flirtatious soubrette, a formidable contralto, and a Head Jailer and Assistant Tormentor are also on the premises...
...foil." For hands he has "articulated steel pincers," which he habitually taps against his contact lenses, making a "dull ting." Dr. No's hobby is torture ("I am interested in pain"). Bond survives Dr. No's inventive obstacle course from electric shocks to octopus hugs, buries his tormentor alive under a small mountain of guano, and rescues the girl from a fate as a tasty snack for some giant land crabs...