hangman
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Throughout Maledon’s career as a hangman, Arkansas newspapers regularly reported his identity and his role in executions.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026
When Merv Griffin created “Wheel of Fortune” in 1975 as television’s answer to hangman, it spent its early years on ratings life support.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
Even the widely despised Chun escaped the hangman.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
Seems that “Wheel” is just hangman, but pricier.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2020
We’ve used up all our paper playing hangman, and my pencil is down to a nub.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
“We groan beneath the yoke of hangmen / While drunken justice sodden sleeps,” he writes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
But the news that the services of hangmen are no longer needed attracts fresh faces to the pub, including a mod young stranger from London with a gift for vexation.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2020
Two other hangmen hired in 2013 failed to show up for work.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2015
Both men were publicans as well as hangmen, but had very different personalities.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2014
You need religion and courts and hangmen and screws and all the rest of it.
From The Night of the Long Knives by Virgil Finlay
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