Chinese water torture

Then-Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said that Biden was subjecting Obama to “Chinese water torture.”

“It was like Chinese water torture . . . it was just annoying . . . I would cringe every time,” he said.

Faced with that Chinese water torture, Black decided just to resign.

That was to stop the Chinese water torture of embarrassing photos and texts about his relationship with Sanchez, a Los Angeles television personality, which put in motion a divorce from his wife MacKenzie.

His column ran on three weekdays a week from 1962 to 1972, then switched to a schedule he likened to the “metronomic” rhythms of “Chinese water torture: FridaySundayTuesday, FridaySundayTuesday.”