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The memos are an attempt to justify and legalize torturous, cruel, and inhuman treatment, including techniques that are illegal such as banging heads into walls 30 times in a row, prolonged nudity, repeated facial and abdominal slapping, dietary manipulation, and dousing with cold water as low as 41 degrees.
If those scents can distract you from the drone of a dentist's drill, imagine what they can do in less torturous settings.— msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
Democrats were relieved to have the torturous budget debate behind them, despite some stumbles in the Senate.— Rockford Register Star Home RSS
Buñuel films the torturous story effortlessly without any fancy camera moves.— Home Theater Forum
How torturous this confinement was, is visible from the sketches and paintings at display in this museum.— Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase

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