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The owner of a magic shop drowned in Houdini's water-torture tank!
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Kevin A. Connolly Collection Houdini during an escape from his water-torture cell, c.
The Magician Escapes the Show Lance Esplund 2011
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Also on view are Houdini's death-defying Milk Can an escape from a padlocked can full of liquid and a reproduction of his water-torture cell, an escape in which Houdini was locked in foot stocks and secured upside-down in a padlocked glass-and-steel box filled with water.
The Magician Escapes the Show Lance Esplund 2011
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We Hear: "I am the human incarnation of Chinese water-torture, come to punish you for your sins."
seanan_mcguire: A Traveller's Phrasebook to Writerland, Installment #2. seanan_mcguire 2009
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Jazz- Wel, Juan was pretty bad, but the job is more like a water-torture kind of disaster.. a slow drip, drip, drip, day after day, bit by bit… eroding my faculties and will to live.
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It was one of only two devices singled out for highlighting (the other was another form of water-torture -- a tank that could be filled with water or other liquids; I have photos of that too.)
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That scenario seems less and less probable by the hour, with her superdelegate supporters slipping away, like so many water-torture drip ... drip ... drips.
Jennifer Nix: Putting an End to this Superdelegate Silliness 2008
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But, the Chinese water-torture effect they are having could persuade the superdelegates to give the nomination to a much safer Hillary Clinton.
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That night I was awoken at 2 am by Chinese water-torture.
Archive 2007-02-01 1 Dinosaur 2007
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Foreign affairs experts agree that the Bush Administration is quietly using the Chinese water-torture method to slowly engineer the death of America's traditional system for delivering foreign aid and some of them think it's not such a bad idea.
THE END OF U.S. AID? 2006
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