Word: executioner
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> Announced impending price controls on five overpriced staples (rice, salt, sugar, flour and condensed milk) and threatened profiteers with execution.
Among the gilt mirrors and airy hangings of Marlborough House, it seemed a wizard idea: Something should be Done about Viet Nam. The 21 delegations gathered in London last week for the 14th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference overwhelmingly approved the notion. But in the execution, it proved a bit...
Often he bribed Congolese soldiers with Polaroid snapshots-a practice that enabled him to be in the right place to take the last picture of Patrice Lumumba as he was bundled from a plane to the truck that would carry him to his execution. From the Congo, Faas went to...
In its 74 years at Sing Sing Prison, New York State's 2,000-volt electric chair has efficiently ended 614 lives. Last month opponents of capital punishment persuaded the state legislature to pass a bill abolishing execution for all but two classes of murderers-cop killers and life...
Admittedly, a yearbook is a difficult form. And the editors of 329 have wisely shifted their emphasis. But they must now shift the quality of the yearbook. One of their best innovations, a photo essay on the staging of "Danton's Death," reflects their problem. Like so much in 329...