Word: executioner
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Longing for serenity and harmony, Sung emperors liked to turn for contrast to closeups of nature, developed a keen liking for small and intimate scenes. I Yuan-chi's Monkey and Cats, almost playful in both subject matter and execution, is an outstanding example. Such paintings so won the...
The Lord Protector's well-embalmed head has not had a reposeful history. In 1660, two years after the 59-year-old Cromwell died in his bed (of a fever), the House of Commons, full of the heady days of the Restoration and Charles II, directed that his body...
Despite these quirks and quiddities, when Stonewall Jackson fell, mortally wounded by his own men in the confusion of battle at Chancellorsville, the last hope of the Confederacy fell with him. This book, the best biography of Jackson in more than half a century, makes clear why General Robert E...
The Graduate School of Education and the school systems of Concord, Lexington, and Newton have announced a program designed to aid the schools in the planning and execution of new educational policies.
Perhaps the most telling critique came from George K. Moriarty, telegraph editor of the Hartford Times (circ. 116,012), who wrote: "The ground plan and execution of the news story today are as out of date as sonnet writing or the sleigh ride." By long usage, wire services and most...