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Word: toasters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shortly before he died, describe the mechanics of the job, how it affected his personal life (hardly at all), how his victims acted. Opposed to capital punishment but unemotional as a surgeon, Executioner Elliott wrote as matter-of-factly as though he were describing the operation of an electric toaster. Few readers would wish for creepier reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Executioner | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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