Word: executioner
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She was right. That day eleven were shot. One, a civilian named Victor Marin, had been tortured all night to make him tell the names of his associates. He did not break down. When taken out for execution, both arms were broken, one eye gouged out, one shoulder dislocated, one...
A friend of the late Edward MacDowell and a pupil of the late Henry Hadley, Barrymore took up the piano at the age of 17. In his Hollywood home he has one of the most magnificent record collections in the movie colony. His favorite composers are Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Wagner...
Execution. Early last week the time came. A tremendous artillery barrage erased German defenses at Kerch and Perekop, cleared paths for the two armies from north and east. The defending troops (including many Rumanians) fell back swiftly, then broke. Soviet columns raced across the dusty mid-Crimean steppe at 50...
This time the target beyond the dark horizon was Palau, 1,176 miles due west of Truk, only 550 miles short of the Philippines. And this time it was a far bigger operation than any the U.S. Navy had previously undertaken in the Pacific. In fact, both in its execution...
At 3 a.m. on the ninth day after sentence, a guard unlocked Pierre Pucheu's cell, a chaplain said a brief mass. At the place of execution Pierre Pucheu spurned a blindfold, stared firmly at the firing squad, himself gave the command, "Ready! . . . Aim! . . . Fire!", then slumped in death...