Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To prove that their anti-Communist actions are as good as their intentions, Indonesian Republicans wound up a busy week (see above) by announcing the execution of Moscow-trained Tan Malaka, the slender, smooth-skinned Indonesian Communist leader who had ungraciously refused to comply with at least four previous Republican...
This time, the Republicans dressed up their account of Tan's execution with details. Tan, they said, was executed by a firing squad April 9, near Blitar, in East Java. The Republicans also reported that they had executed three other Communist chieftains: former Premier Amir Sjarifoed-den, R. M...
Bouquets & Brickbats. Not so melted were London critics. The Manchester Guardian and London Daily Telegraph were unstinting in their praise. But the Times had a brickbat in its bouquet: "The virtuosity of the execution is astonishing. But equally . . . astonishing was the lack of [interpretive] imagination . . . Brahms's First Symphony...
For 94 years the dime novels, pulp magazines and comic books of Street & Smith have helped U.S. males while away billions of idle hours in bunkhouses, fo'c'sles, foxholes and subways. One generation escaped into a world of high adventure and happy endings in Nick Carter and...
"Yes, church organization, evangelistic methods, theology, and ways of living must undergo a radical change . . . Audacity of thought is necessary. There is no fear of heresy, for history tells us that creative periods have always been times for the emergence of heretics . . . But today there can be no more inquisition...