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Word: executioner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even in the absence of Shaath's testimony, however, no one in Beirut had any doubt as to who was behind Jedid's murder. In the two years since he fled to Beirut as a political refugee, Ghassan Jedid, fanatic antiCommunist, had spent his time laying the groundwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Sentence Executed | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Out of Germany. The Walls Came Tumbling Down relates the real saga of a Dutch girl, condemned to death by the Nazis for her work in the underground and awaiting execution at the Waldheim prison in southeastern Germany. Her story begins with the carnival of freedom that occurs when Waldheim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flights to Freedom | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

Techniques of Execution. King's Morehouse record (major in sociology) won him scholarship offers from three seminaries. But Martin Luther King Sr., a man of considerable parts, held that scholarships should go only to boys who could otherwise not afford to continue their education. King Sr. therefore reached into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Attack on the Conscience | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

For the first time in his life Martin King found himself in an integrated school; he was one of six Negroes among nearly 100 students at Crozer. Fearful that he might fail to meet white standards, King worked ceaselessly. Aside from his general theological studies, he pored over the words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Attack on the Conscience | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

"Stalin practiced brutal violence towards everything that opposed him . . . was capricious and despotic in character . . . [ordered] mass arrests and deportations of many thousands of people, execution without trial and without normal investigation . . . sanctioned torture and oppression which led to the slandering and self-accusation of innocent people. Whoever opposed Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Model Communist | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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