Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Footpads, pickpockets and housebreakers, with all the riffraff who lived by their wits, filled the underworld of London's alleys and gin shops with an argot of which traces still survive. "Frisking" meant searching, then as now. A watch was a "tick," a handkerchief was a "wipe," and "wipe...
The Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Forty-seven has witnessed the return and triumph of Gamalielese conservatism in American domestic politics. But thanks to a bipartisan foreign policy this swing to the right has not yet produced a noticeable withdrawal from the international arena. Isolationism and pacifism are...
Two Britons appeared before government bodies yesterday but with totally diverse intent. One, the British Colonial Secretary, cried "horror and revulsion" in reporting to Commons the execution of two British Army sergeants in Palestine. The other, King George VI, told the Privy Council, in a 175-year-old ritual, that...
Just before dawn, three grey-hatted gendarmes rapped sharply at the door of a modest Athens villa. Kosta Tsakolos, head of OPLA (Communist execution squad) during the 1944 leftist revolution, opened the door. "Come with us," ordered a policeman. "I am not coming with you," said the terrorist chief. "Under...
Even the unusual manner of his execution-by internal severance of an artery following spinal anaesthesia-testified to Old 81st's greatness. Veterinarians chose this method as the one most likely to keep alive enough semen for a few more calves. Failing to find it, they buried the body...