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Word: executioners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The score of the football game may have been 13 to 12, but the Harvard band won an easy victory over the Tiger tooters. The orthographical offering was "Hello Tiger," in big block letters, and the Crimson's musical offerings were far superior, in execution as well as just plain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Day the Goalposts Fell, Or---The Crimson in Triumph Flashing | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

A "no" to question No. 1 washed out all the other questions. The bald fact is that no one in the State Department has yet sat down with the British to work out execution of the policy the two countries agreed to in August. Nor has the State Department even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Revival of Germany? | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Archbishop Stepinac was born (1898) into a Croat peasant family of eleven children. In 1916, he served in the Austrian Army on the Italian front. He was captured, but was later allowed to join the Serbian Army. In 1924 he went to Rome to study for the priesthood. Four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Archbishop Behind Bars | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

We only lost a few men (who overindulged themselves in mortar fragments). We started to level the town with artillery fire, but the Wehrmacht hospital Kommandant and the Bürgermeister finally convinced the 55 that nothing could be gained by further resistance-beyond the possible execution of a few...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 26, 1946 | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

What are shambles? The abbreviated dictionary at hand tells me: "slaughterhouse: hence, figuratively, a place of carnage or execution." . . . You may remember Macaulay's lay; how

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 5, 1946 | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

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