Word: hangman
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...Most gruesome hanging in the book is that of James Madison Wyatt Stone, Washington restaurant proprietor who murdered his wife. Stone was so fat that his head was jerked off by the hangman's noose while his body fell to the ground...
Ominously the broadcast said the vengeance executions had "started," implying that the former republic of Czechoslovakia was in for a blood bath because of the attack on Heydrich, "the hangman" and deputy leader of the Gestapo, who admittedly was in a grave condition...
...betrayals Laval would abet - if Adolf Hitler willed it. They knew Laval would stop at nothing to assure a German victory. Laval had said (in a letter quoted by the journalist Pertinax, who estimated that 90% of the French people are pro-British): "I fully realize that the hangman will quickly take care of me on the day British arms triumph...
...Hangman Heydrich...
...impossible for any intelligent human being to have read your article on Hitler's chief hangman Heydrich without wanting to do all he possibly can do to defeat the Nazi regime. I was already shocked when I saw Heydrich's brutal face and the typical ears of that born criminal on the cover of TIME of Feb. 23. Now, on March 12, it will be exactly seven years when I had the misfortune to fall into his hands...