Word: squad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four days after Tabakchali's conviction came news that he and 18 other Iraqi officers involved in the Mosul revolt had been executed by a firing squad. Four anti-Communist civilians condemned by Mahdawi's court were hanged the same day. But the Tabakchali trial had seemingly shaken at last Kassem's faith in Colonel Mahdawi and his court as useful propaganda instruments. The same broadcast that told of Tabakchali's execution announced that Mahdawi had left for a six-week trip to Peking. And after that, reported Baghdad's insiders, he would move...
What happened next is the subject of angry argument. The ambulance attendant says that the frightened boys told him only that Swanson had "a spasm in his throat," never mentioned the meat, which he could easily have removed. A fire department resuscitator squad that was called to the scene backs up his story. The boys deny the charge, insist that the rescuers carelessly placed the victim on his back. Whatever the truth, on arrival at Los Angeles Central Receiving Hospital at 1:48 a.m., less than two hours after he began to choke, Dick Swanson was dead...
Fortnight ago the Amsterdam underworld, outraged by declining dividends, took matters into its own hands, dispatched a flying squad of 50 musclemen, who set upon a gang of nozem out on a heckling foray and administered professional beatings all around. The same evening Amsterdam's police commissioner got a telephone call from the city's leading racketeer. Willem ("Fat Steak'') Wagenaar. Said Fat Steak: "If you can't keep order in our district, we'll take over. Keep your police at home; we'll fix the nozem." Bubbling with official indignation, the commissioner...
Early this month Pal Kosa and seven others were lined against a wall in Budapest's Fo Utca prison and shot dead by a firing squad. At the secret trial of Pal Kosa and his friends, 182 witnesses were called for the prosecution, none for the defense. Some Ujpest Communists offered to testify for the defendants but were refused a hearing by Hungary's hanging judge, Janos Borbaly. Not a word about the trial or execution appeared in Hungarian newspapers, but word leaked out to the Manchester Guardian's Victor Zorza, a Polish exile with excellent contacts...
...from under a preposterously foppish plume, spouts the withering witticisms that kept the original play stylish even while it was out of balance. Sample: "Martyrdom, sir, is the only way in which a man can be come famous without ability." And when Douglas pleads for death by firing squad rather than by hanging, Burgoyne asks: "Have you any idea of the average marks manship of the Army of His Majesty King George III?" But Devil remains threadbare and lacks, as Shaw also noted, "a single even passably novel incident...