Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fortnight, Bishop Herrera himself gave a dramatic account of the job before his scholar-priests. "One day in Santander," he said, "a Communist woman was sentenced to death. She had declared herself an atheist. On the eve of her execution a nun convinced her she should confess and partake...
Hook's answer: his peers. "I am confident that if the execution of the policy were left to university faculties themselves, and not to administrators and trustees who are harried by pressure groups, there would be little ground for complaint. In the last analysis there is no safer repository...
Most prisoners slept in their clothes on bare boards, 100 to a room-it took Margolin 18 months to get a mattress. They worked nine days out of ten; no Soviet holidays were observed. The only pay was food, and even "100% execution of the work norm was not enough...
The University of Kentucky has its own special brand of Southern hospitality. When visiting basketball squads arrive in Lexington, they get full red-carpet treatment (which often includes a tour of nearby horse farms). Then, like condemned men whose last hours on earth have been made easier, the visiting athletes...
Last week was the 300th anniversary of a dramatic and still controversial event, the execution of King Charles I. To mark the occasion, many speeches were made and articles written which drew a wide variety of lessons from the monarch's unhappy fate. Some held it up as a...