Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accompanying picture of ''Robber-not a Rapist'' De Boe. No professional, no executioner, Mr. Hanna is a gentleman farmer who lives on land that has been in the family since 1808. . . . He has assisted at some 65 hangings (he does not recall the exact number), has never sprung a trap. Years ago, the revolting sight of a public strangulation as a result of an incorrectly tied noose led Mr. Hanna on a later occasion to offer his knowledge of rope-tying to the White County sheriff. He has since performed the same service elsewhere in Illinois...
...correcting your statement that Dizzy Dean was born in Oklahoma [TIME, April 15]. Everyone around here knows that he was born in Arkansas According to the father of the Dean boys, the event took place in a little town called Lucas; he was a little hazy as to the exact time and place since, evidently, at that time, the arrival of a child was scarcely an event of sufficient importance to take up much room in his memory...
...jungle tragedy, taken on the scene by the Belgian Congo's official photographer. L'Illustration's cover showed the great white gash the plane had cut in the forest. Inside was a meticulous chart showing the contours of the plane's debris and the exact positions to which the crash hurled the bodies of Governor and Mme Renard and their five companions...
...blood would cause it to accumulate in the splanchnic (abdominal) pool and thus render the brain relatively anemic. This would increase drowsiness and assist in going to sleep in the noisy and vibrating berth, but would not necessarily make the sleep one whit more refreshing, in fact, possibly the exact opposite...
...moderns expect the world to end with a bang, at least in their own day, but the year 1212 seemed to many an appropriate date for Doomsday. Rumor set the exact time: the 12th day of the 12th month. Author Clayton begins his tale early in this ominous year, in romantic, ravaged Provence, where the fat lands of favored abbeys are set like islands in the war-swept countryside, and corpses hang high on every road. Holy Church has been chastening her heretical children. In the Abbey of La Soleza, whose fanatical head, Fray Sebastian, is a power...