Word: executioner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Techniques of Execution. King's Morehouse record (major in sociology) won him scholarship offers from three seminaries. But Martin Luther King Sr., a man of considerable parts, held that scholarships should go only to boys who could otherwise not afford to continue their education. King Sr. therefore reached into...
"Stalin practiced brutal violence towards everything that opposed him . . . was capricious and despotic in character . . . [ordered] mass arrests and deportations of many thousands of people, execution without trial and without normal investigation . . . sanctioned torture and oppression which led to the slandering and self-accusation of innocent people. Whoever opposed Stalin...
Thus, when Sade was released from prison in 1790, he found himself a hero of the new revolution, and was made a judge. But the man who commended cruelty as a means of individual expression recoiled from institutionalized cruelty. Most of all, he denied that any man had the right...
Crocodile Tears. In his drive toward legalized larceny, Mac founds a chain of B. (for Bargain) Shops that sell cut-rate goods to the poor. To supply them, he turns his gang into a kind of quartermaster looting corps which burgles other shops by night. In plots and counterplots of...
The British and French had all but telegraphed their intention to make simultaneous airborne and seaborne landings at Port Said. Their execution was painfully slow. The invasion fleet, much of which had to make a three-day trip from Malta, spent at least 24 hours longer than necessary reaching Port...