Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President of the Supreme Economic Council, who boasted that the U. S. S. R. had produced "many more tanks, heavy artillery and machine guns in 1933 than in 1932." Taking his cue from his leader, Comrade Ordzhonikidze cried: "If these swines' noses compel our industry to mobilize to arm our Red troops, I think we will do it with more strength and more successfully than we have ever done anything before...
...gloved Executioner Goebler. If he had been working anywhere else in Germany he would have used a battle ax but in the State of Saxony, seat of the German Supreme Court, a French-type guillotine is the customary instrument of death. Putting his hand on the prisoner's arm, Executioner Goebler steered van der Lubbe to the guillotine, strapped him down, pressed a button releasing the great knife and stood back as it fell. Into a basket full of absorbent sawdust rolled the head of van der Lubbe...
...rung by rung: pupil, grade-school teacher, high-school teacher, principal, associate superintendent. He has long been a close personal friend and ally of the Board of Education's Democratic President George Joseph Ryan. Democratic Superintendent O'Shea has often been pleased to call him "my right arm." Accepting the general estimate of Superintendent-designate Campbell as a person able man of considerable vigor and administrative competence, New Yorkers wondered whether he would prove more progressive than retiring Superintendent O'Shea, whose regime has by no means satisfied educational idealists. In 1928 he protested a birth-control...
...feebly wriggling her abdomen, the audience was as uncomfortable as she. But she got her reward. Into the cistern went the executioner. For a minute only the double-basses were heard, shuddering as if they could see the head fall, the blood gush. Then the executioner's black arm ap peared holding the platter and what seemed to be a wad of cheesecloth...
...cousin, Katherine St. Quentyn. Worse, he took advantage of Katherine's pity to spoil her good name. Luckily the Crimean War had begun or the St. Quentyns would have certainly called him out. Alastair tried his best to be killed before Sevastopol but only succeeded in losing an arm, while every St. Quentyn who might have pistoled him went down to death and glory. Home again as a hero, Alastair found himself friends with Katherine. Like a sensible Chappell he decided to marry a soldier's career. He had no room for regrets when the Queen herself gave...