Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morrison has surrounded himself with a tight "general staff" of economists and technicians (among them Patrick Gordon-Walker, formerly history don at Christ Church College, Oxford, and Douglas Jay, formerly financial editor of the Daily Herald); with them he plans the execution of Labor's nationalization strategy. Morrison usually...
Salazar began immediately to construct his Estado Novo. He announced that the New State would be based on two great calls for social reform-the Rerum Novarum of Pope Leo XIII and the Quadragesima Anno of Pius XI (see RELIGION). But however lofty may have been his inspiration, Salazar'...
What Lowell House investigators might have found to criticize had they been more single-minded in their effort to help the food saving plan would be the devious execution of the program by University officials closely connected with the dining halls. Showing no conception of the spirit of the campaign...
The abbé is tall, blond Father Franz Stock, prewar head of the German Catholic Church in Paris. During the Nazi occupation he served as priest in prisons and hospitals, and administered last rites to thousands of Frenchmen executed by the Nazis. He visited them in their cells, rode with...
In the good old ignorant days of Sherlock Holmes and Arsene Lupin, the thriller was a mild, usually non-murderous affair in which there was nothing more bestial than a hound with phosphorescent jowls. Today, when "emancipation is complete [and] Freud and Machiavelli have reached the outer suburbs," the pulp...