Word: executioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Schlieffen Plan, master design of Germany's attack in 1914, called for the German Armies swinging like a scythe pivoted from a point near Metz, to sweep in a wide circle through Belgium far to the westward around Paris and, still sweeping around, finally pin the French Armies...
Execution. How elastic was the German plan of invasion, how alert and audacious its execution, was seen when the campaign's only major slip-up occurred. The destruction of the cruisers Emden and Blücher by unquisled Norse in Oslo Fjord so seriously disrupted matters that no more...
The immediate aftermath of Easter Week was the execution of 5 leaders, the sentencing of 75 revolters to penal servitude, the imprisonment of 23, the internment of 1,841. Later, in London, the best known of the Easter Week conspirators, Sir Roger Casement, died on the gallows, despite the pleas...
As execution day approached, Eire's Government did all in its power to stay the hanging. Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's record on the subject was unmistakably clear. He had forcefully condemned I,. R. A. direct action. An I. R. A. veteran himself, he had nevertheless outlawed...
When the Act was passed, one of the main talking points of its partisans was the noble, self-sacrificing clause that swept profitable American shipping from the war zones. Many shipping companies lobbied desperately against this provision, but Congress spurned what it considered a mere selfish plea, and proudly passed...