Word: executioner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sargent learned the lessons of his chosen masters brilliantly and soon. It was in Paris, at a scant 27, that he proved himself a painter of felicity and not just flair. His Daughters of Edward D. Bolt (opposite) found a place at the Salon of 1883, and in the minds...
By 1946 the NKVD had become such a huge, unwieldy organization that Stalin split it into two parts: the MGB (Security, under Abakumov) and the MVD (Slave Labor, under Kruglov). Having swelled the ranks of slave labor by several millions, Serov was a natural for the MVD. He was made...
In 1950, WHRB was forced to close down because of "over-radiating;" for the FCC to suspend it again because of its signal has been stronger than the rule book allows would needlessly inconvenience an entire College community. If WHRB were infringing on another's rights, suspension would be justified...
The Deputies were almost gay as they assembled early last week to deal the routine death blow to the Faure government, as they had to 20 other governments since 1945. Even Faure himself was resigned to his execution. Back in his constituency he had ruefully declined comment on a constituent...
A broadcast from Tiflis, Georgia reported the execution of six former NKVD interrogators, the imprisonment of two others, for having made "false charges and employed criminal prosecution methods strictly forbidden by Soviet law" against "honest cadres who were loyal to the Communist Party and the Soviet government." Among the victims...