Word: hangman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nationwide debate has gone on over whether or not to make the abolition permanent. Police and prison officers lobbied for a return to hanging. Most Britons seemed to side with them; polls showed that as many as 84% of the public were in favor of bringing back the hangman. One dissenter was Albert Pierrepoint, the retired public executioner, who had hanged some 450 persons in his day. "I have very strong personal feelings about this," he told the tabloid Sun. "I hope Jim Callaghan gets...
...Since the judges for the American Heritage's dictionary have decreed the death penalty for all who use like as a conjunction [Aug. 22], a hangman's noose would have been the appropriate end for Elyot, Shakespeare, Smollett, Southey, Newman, Washington Irving, Darwin and William Morris (of Morris chair fame, not the dictionary's editor). Edmund Spenser should perhaps have been flogged for anticipating the TVese use of host as a transitive verb. Since advise in the sense of "notify" is business and Army English, Willa Gather and Sir Richard Steele must have been members...
...Hangman Without Pay. Dr. Carl Jung, the late Swiss psychiatrist, once observed that mountains are not only geographical barriers; they can also limit the horizons of the human spirit. In many of the country's remote Alpine valleys and gorges, medieval habit and thought persist so strongly that Stocker and Kohler's defense counsel found it worthwhile to call for theological testimony to justify the defendants' religious zeal...
...court was swamped with threatening letters, including a postcard promising that "the entire courthouse will be blown up if they don't get the maximum penalty." Though Switzerland has no death penalty, one letter writer offered his services as a hangman "without pay." At week's end the six were found guilty; they will be sentenced this week. The worst they can expect is 20 years, for "inflicting injuries that could be reasonably expected to cause death...
...Hangman's Beautiful Daughter -- The Incredible String Band...