Word: kneele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name of Devil's Island all over the world, but the prisoners, often shrunken to 70 or 80 lbs., worked and died as before. At night, a "bar of justice" would hold the incos manacled to plank beds, and on execution days the prisoners would be forced to kneel around the guillotine to watch...
...against. He tried to avoid a showdown with this sallow, unsmiling man. "I do not want steps taken against Stepinac," he is reported to have said afterward. "He has a martyr complex." But the outspoken archbishop was getting to be too much of a hero; people began to kneel as he passed on his daily walks through Zagreb...