Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...francs the curious public could watch the family guillotine decapitate a sheep. When he put the guillotine in hock for 3,000 francs and showed up at an execution armed with one of his ancestor's axes, he was finally deposed. Ugly rumor says he eventually became a butcher in Newark...
...leaders, the American Federation of Labor has long seemed as limp as a well-chewed cigar. In 1938, after John L. Lewis led the C.I.O. out of the A.F.L., he said his new union "has made it perfectly safe for the A.F.L. to come along and gather up the butcher and the baker and the candle-stickmaker ... All they need to do is trail along . . . behind the C.I.O. and we will keep the wind off them...
...strikes threatened 1) the mind-teachers refused to grade exam papers until they got a pay raise; 2) the feet-Paris taxi drivers, mostly as old and decrepit as their vehicles, struck when threatened with physical examinations that would ground the wheeziest and most shortsighted; and 3) the stomach-butchers refused to sell meat until the government raised price ceilings. One butcher killed himself, leaving the explanation: "I cannot accustom myself to the satanic clientele in this district...
...appointed morning, Dr. el Husseini walked to the gallows. He was followed by the other condemned men-a cattle merchant, a coffee-house keeper, a butcher...
Heydrich, Nazi boss of Czechoslovakia. The Nazis shot all of the village's 175 men, sent its women to concentration camps, demolished its houses. The Czechs did not forget Lidice. At war's end, they tracked down the "Butcher of Lidice," Karl Herman Frank, former Nazi protector of Bohemia and Moravia, hanged him with six of his Gestapo henchmen...