Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Bayonne, where the great Stavisky financial scandal had its origins, Jew-baiting Doriot, coatless and snapping his galluses, demanded immediate execution without trial of onetime Premiers Léon Blum and Paul Reynaud and onetime Minister of Interior Georges Mandel. He wanted their deaths as the first of a...
To say anything in praise of the Ninth would be impossible without dragging out our hackneyed friend, the Hollywood adjective. Beethoven, already deaf but still in his prime, planned this symphony on a scale that transcends in power and breadth of conception anything written in this form before or since...
One day when Old McDonald, then 18, was out plowing, he "received the call . . . to go out and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ." He had no trouble becoming a preacher, but he didn't know anything. So he worked his way through school (meanwhile marrying and begetting two...
That was the Japanese plan. Its execution would not be so simple. The Dutch had a mobile Army of perhaps 50,000 well-armed white and brown troops, 50,-ooo not so well armed. "Some thousands" of Australian, British and U.S. soldiers were on the island, and probably were held...
Finally they hung a bottle of gasoline and a card inscribed "Guerrilla" about her neck, hustled her off to a gallows in the village square of Petrisheva. Villagers were herded to watch the execution. The Germans stood Zoya on a box, dropped a noose around her neck. A German officer...