Word: steels
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...much to break the condemned's neck; it sometimes took as long as eight minutes for the hanged to die. New ropes brought in for later executions jerked harder on the convicted person's spine, but executioners soon noticed the cords fraying on the bend of the reinforced steel installed in the cement ceiling of the gallows. During a recent round of executions, on Sept. 6, the rope snapped after 12 hangings, sending a condemned man plummeting 15 ft. through the trap door onto the hard concrete floor below. Miraculously, he survived. "Allah saved me!" he shouted. "Allah saved...
...create a top-notch restaurant adjoining the Westport Country Playhouse - the renowned [an error occurred while processing this directive] Connecticut theater run by his wife, actress Joanne Woodward - he had ideas for what one should see, smell and taste. One architect sketched plans for a stark space, all stainless steel and alabaster white. "Paul flipped out!" says chef Michel Nischan. "He wanted very country and very warm." And so a homey waft of vanilla greets you as you walk into the barn-like Dressing Room. There are exposed beams overhead and flickering candlelight everywhere. The walls are paneled in warm...
...inmates have almost no physical contact with other people. Food, mail and laundry are delivered through a slot in the steel bars. Prisoners have a choice of two kinds of meals: the regular plan consists of typical American food: casseroles, hamburgers, blue-plate specials. The alternative is a diet conforming to almost all religious restrictions. It contains no pork and incorporates lots of beans and vegetables. Muslims get special mealtimes during the month of Ramadan, when the observant do not eat during daylight hours...
...ordeal. Two guards enter the vestibule and order the inmate to strip. After a cavity search, he dresses again and his hands are cuffed through an opening in the bars that separate the vestibule from the rest of the cell. The guards then march him down the corridor, a steel-tipped baton at the ready. When all the prisoners are lined up, they are led to an outdoor recreation area enclosed by 25-ft. walls. If they look straight up through the chain mesh that encloses the top of the yard, they can see a patch of the blue Colorado...
Although the hearts of Pittsburgh hockey fans rise and fall with the successes and failures of NHL phenom Sidney Crosby, another Steel City product has been making his mark on the ice.Upper Saint Clair High graduate Dylan Reese is one of the top young players in the nation and the undisputed leader of his team. Combining a potent penchant for guarding the blue line with an ebullient personality, the 111th captain of Harvard hockey seems to be the perfect player to wear the ‘C’ on his sweater.“He?...