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When a momentary lapse forced him out of the top four and into seventh place during the 3-meter event, the levelheaded Mule turned once again to his "triple twister," which registers a 2.8 degree of difficulty out of a possible 3.0, and climbed back into the money with a...
The trampoline workouts allow Walker to guide team members step by step through each new dive and stop them periodically to demonstrate proper form. The intricate system of pulleys, weights and belts makes this the safest way to instruct divers before they attempt actual execution from the boards.
The force of Wolf's argument makes humanity's apparent ease at distinguishing between murder and execution, torture and punitive action, no longer troubling. We recognize man's abhorrence of murder and violence, and, at the same time, applaud his acceptance of the legitimacy of those acts when performed by...
In one chapter, Wat and Simsa use code words when planning the school's curriculum, to disguise its purpose. Here, the language of death is couched in apparently harmless acronyms: CURMODEX for 'Curriculum in Modern Execution,' GENTO for 'General Torture,' HANAP and TINA for 'hanging apparatus' and 'guillotine', respectively. A...
He also met Heywood Broun, a columnist for the World, a Harvard graduate who attacked former President Lowell for encouraging the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. O'Hara agreed with Broun's views and began writing for his newspaper.