The C.I.A. not only waterboarded prisoners, but slammed them into walls, chained them in uncomfortable positions for hours, stripped them of clothing and kept them awake for days on end.
Both Mr. Boerem and Mr. Ronan have spent numerous hours stripping the interior and installing wood flooring and new walls.
"But I would spend hours stripping the phosphorous off the heads of matches and making different explosives".
When soldiers cleared Tahrir Square on 9 March, they arrested Essam and tortured him for four hours, stripping him, beating him and cutting his long hair with broken glass.
Each 24 hour period was shown as a vertical strip with the 24 hour strips arranged side by side for the entire period.
Witnesses say that after the assault they were interrogated for hours and stripped of mobile phones and the guns they keep to defend themselves against bandits.
With the passage of electric current from a lead anode to a thin stainless-steel cathode sheet, chromium is plated onto the cathode and, every 72 hours, is stripped from the sheet, sealed in stainless steel cans, and heated to 420 °C (790 °F) to remove water and hydrogen.
The rape had been committed between 9 or 10 P.M., on an April evening in 1989; someone had beaten the jogger so badly and so brutally that by the time she was found, hours later, stripped and covered with mud, she had lost three quarters of her blood.
Then a locust swarm swept through the village she was working in as a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa, and in a few hours it stripped the bark and leaves from hundreds of seedlings she was growing for her forestry project and gobbled almost everything else green in the area.
The film reduced the conceit to an amateur-hour sitcom; stripped of great voices, great numbers, and anything remotely considered great dancing.
The material facts of the story are fascinating: enormous "factory ships" equipped to disassemble a whale in half an hour; sailors stripping blubber like a peel from a banana; a scientist hiding ships' logs in his potato cellar for years to keep them from Stalinist authorities.
