Torquemada's

For starters, those decrepit communal wooden benches—shades of Torquemada's rack—have been banished in favor of individual plastic seats with much-improved sightlines.

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Genseric: I'm sure the only reason that Torquemada's victims weren't idly flicking through the paper during the Spanish Inquisition waterboarding sessions was that newspapers hadn't been invented at the time.

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For starters, those decrepit communal wooden benches—shades of Torquemada's rack—have been banished in favor of individual plastic seats with much-improved sightlines.

At Ojai, New Music Was Once Its Strength David Mermelstein 2011

She would have kept the Jews around forever if it wasn't for Torquemada's jealousy.

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Lawyers acting on behalf of Torquemada's descendants are suing the agency for $300mn for unlicensed use of the technique, which simulates death-by-drowning in its subjects.

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Stallard would occasionally select an iron from a Torquemada's assortment in a rack by the fireplace.

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She would have kept the Jews around forever if it wasn't for Torquemada's jealousy.

Queen Isabella Eats a Pineapple and Misses the Jews 2009

Representing more "informers" (including Lee J. Cobb, Sterling Hayden, Richard Collins, and many more) than any other Hollywood attorney, by 1951 he had become a "symbol of collaboration," and Charles Katz, one of the legal team for the Ten, likened Gang to "Torquemada's adjutant."

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Lawyers acting on behalf of Torquemada's descendants are suing the agency for $300mn for unlicensed use of the technique, which simulates death-by-drowning in its subjects.

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Moreover, one witness has described in hushed tones how Haynes kept a copy of this memorandum in a vault in his office, removing it to examine like Torquemada's Holy Grail whenever he needed nourishment in his quest for official cruelty.

Torture from the Top Down 2008