Word: militiamen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mikolajczyk also cited the case of opposition candidate Jan Malejko, whose mutilated body was found in a field near his house after a nocturnal visit by three militiamen. The security police had previously ordered him to withdraw his candidacy. The bodies of 23 other murdered opposition candidates have been found. Eight murdered Communist workers were also recently discovered...
...waterpower gadget. Tom had already made one escape from his cell, and was known to have rich and imaginative friends who might try to engineer another getaway. So the sheriff, taking no chances, held the hanging one day in November 1903 in a corridor of the Laramie County jail. Militiamen were posted outdoors. Tom was fitted with a five-strap leather harness, to keep his arms and legs from dangling. A couple of his cronies, invited in for the event, were asked to sing his favorite hymn, Life's Railway to Heaven. A minister said a prayer. Tom cracked...
...million Muscovites thronged Gorky Street, jampacked balconies and bus tops to watch the procession. Hundreds of Russian militiamen struggled to keep back the curious crowds. Pravda had warned: "No hooting." Most Muscovites watched in silence; only a few muttered: "Bandits! Murderers! Killers!" Once a woman screamed: "Give me back my daughter! Give me back my daughter!" The crowd hushed her. For the most part, the gauntlet the Germans ran was a silent one. But it was a gauntlet: the hatred in the air was almost a solid...
...that pictures could be made, the five were shot at 9 a.m. instead of at dawn. Ciano, the last to be executed, had collapsed during the night. He had to be dragged between two militiamen and placed astride a chair withhis back to the firing squad. The volunteer firing squad was nervous and shot badly, which may account for the story that someone had bribed his executioners...
...Baku, en route to Moscow, TIME & LIFE Correspondent Richard Lauterbach was followed in the street by as many as 70 children, asking questions about the U.S. Militiamen finally had to break up the crowd. Adults also were voluble and curious. Russian questions...