Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ TIME'S tall (6 ft.), middle-aged (46), ambidextrous male artist used a tired old ½-inch, previously dipped brush to make the unstenciled sun before X-ing it out in the manner correctly described by Reader Harrington. The idea came suddenly, but was deliberately planned before execution...
The list had no glaring omissions, with the possible exception of Field Marshal Alfred Kesselring and Industrialist Fritz von Thyssen. Industrialist Gustav Krupp von Bohlen was there, and so were Militarists Keitel, Jodl, Raeder and Doenitz. There were Financiers Funk and Schacht, ex-Foreign Ministers von Neurath and von Ribbentrop...
¶ The woman who thought anything anyone else touched was thereby polluted. For reasons only Dr. Brill can explain, the patient was temporarily better just after the execution of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray for murder (1928).
Last month in Mexico City, Juan Ne grin and a remnant of the Spanish Cortes met again. Of the 474 deputies elected to the Cortes in Spain's last general elections (1936), 127 have died - mostly by execution. The Mexico City meeting, mustering 94 of the 98 deputies now...
¶ "Immediate and most important" is the task of carrying out "negotiations relative to the execution of the provisions of the Potsdam declaration." (Kusuo Oya, chief of Japan Broadcasting Corp.'s overseas bureau, announced: "We have lost, but this is temporary.")