Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, however, the fraud came to light and both Michael and his double were arrested. Last week Michael was found guilty and sentenced to death; his impersonator was acquitted. He could not, said the court-martial, be held responsible for his actions. As Michael was marched off to await execution...
Then the string-pullers went to work. Just a few hours before Michael was scheduled to face a firing squad, the Greek cabinet passed a special order in council which, for the first time, would allow a case of this kind to be brought before a court of pardons. When...
A fund-raising office is yet to be established to carry out the idea, and Yale authorities report that it may be a year before all details are finally set. But it is the necessarily long-range nature of the scholarship program that makes its execution a slow process.
All he did was to examine the 1945 Navy-Michigan game--won 33-7 by the Middies--to discover why the Michigan offenses failed. "It was a study in offensive execution and defensive anticipation," Nelson says. "Then I broke the game down into individual failures, both in execution and in...
Putting the single wing into Harvard football has been comparatively easy, at least as far as Nelson's department is concerned. "The system's been evolving since 1940, and a lot of boys out west grew up with it; here we had to teach the backs the feeling of the...