Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In London last week Winston Churchill declared: "A river of blood has flowed and is flowing between the German race and the peoples of all Europe. It is not the hot blood of battle, where good blows are given and returned. It is the cold blood of the execution yard...
While he was speaking the Bordeaux hostages were shot. Then the Germans made a magnanimous gesture. They would delay for a few days the execution of the next hundred hostages. To explain this change of heart Vichy authorities is sued an official statement. "It is rumored in Vichy," the announcement...
He had lived the Revolution. While the Lenins, the Trotskys, the Bukharins had hidden in foreign exile, he had fought inside Russia. He came, down through the years, to feel that he knew what Russia needed, and he would go neither too fast nor too slowly to achieve it, though...
Kathryn Howard, by Jean Holloway, for Helen Menken on the Kate Smith Hour. Henry VIII and his fifth queen in a struggle of wills before her execution, proving that good theater may be good radio.
For SPAB has yet to define allocation in the sense of ranking allocatees. Army and Navy, who use copper in a way most businessmen would consider lavish, still hogged the head of the queue last week. No plans for supplying a minimum civilian economy had been formulated. With incomplete statistics...