Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since V-J day, Korea had been a sore spot. The damage had started at Yalta, where an illogical division of Korea between U.S. and Soviet occupations had been decided upon. It had been worsened by bad administration in the U.S. zone and by the fond U.S. hope that...
Voodoo. There was the white-hot matter of the five ebony-black men who were to go to the gallows next day at Accra, in Africa's Gold Coast Colony, for a voodoo murder-the sacrificial killing of a friend to provide companionship in the spirit world for the...
Plainly flustered, he stood for a moment as if expecting more debate. Instead came a sharp thunderclap from Churchill: "This is a matter of life and death; will the Colonial Secretary not get off and send his telegram now?" Creech-Jones retreated, a few minutes later slipped out and sent...
Starting at different points in what may be called an average French town, the camera momentarily touches various citizens and follows their movements as their lives interweave. The point of final convergence is at prison, where, as hostages, they are awaiting execution in reprisal for an action of the underground...
At week's end he and Collins were still missing. General Barker granted to Terrorist Gruner an indefinite stay of execution, "pending an appeal."