Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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City school authorities suspended at least 644 children yesterday in swift execution of a new anti-delinquency policy. New York Times, February 8
In the bitter settlement of accounts after World War II, French justice gave short shrift to the men who had run the Vichy government for the Nazis. By the records, 8,348 collaborators were executed without benefit of trial and another 1,325 were sent to their death by kangaroo...
The Real & Unreal. The story of the Wanderer (Lagerkvist names no names) begins with his lack of, charity toward a felon who is being led to a place of execution. The felon, staggering under his cross, says: "You shall suffer greater punishment than mine; you shall never die." Later, whispers...
Stay of Execution. Few weeks pass in which the Journal (slogan: "Spokesman of the Services since 1863") does not flail away at brasshatted bungling. Best-informed and most influential military publication in the U.S., it is studied closely from Capitol Hill to the White House (where 34-year Subscriber Eisenhower...
¶ Sniffing out Charlie Wilson's plan to abolish the Army's Veterinary Corps in 1956, the Journal stayed the execution by pointing out that Congress alone has the legal authority for such action.