Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Nov. 11). Contrary to official reports, cabled accounts, Bacha Sakao was not "humanely shot." With ankles loaded with heavy chains, he and his five companions had ropes knotted about their necks, were hauled into the air, to strangle slowly. No coward, Bandit Bacha scoffed and jeered at his executioners while breath...
Intensive defensive work has given the Harvard team confidence in its ability to halt the touted Eli power plays. The Crimson offense, too, has received its share of polishing up; tomorrow's game should find it clicking at top speed. Better timing and greater speed in the execution of running...
Salt Lake City. Murderers sent to this prison for execution are allowed to choose between hanging and shooting. Almost all take shooting.
"In general, the new institution appears to be admirably designed to facilitate execution of the Young Reparations Plan and to promote financial cooperation among nations. It would seem, however, that the dissension as to the location of the bank was not very much in keeping with the 'spirit of Locarno...
The realization of the economic interdependency of nations, a doctrine which has grown with enormous strides in the decade since the war, was consummated yesterday at Baden-Baden when final details as to the proposed World Bank were issued. If this institution, designed primarily to facilitate execution of the Young...