hangman
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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
The Good Lord Bird opens with Brown climbing a scaffold and, right before the hangman puts a hood over his head, saying, “What a beautiful country.”
From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2020
A notebook and other items belonging to Britain's most famous hangman has sold at auction for £20,000.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2019
Actually it was a little bit like a stick figure, like in hangman, but with more details.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
In his bathroom brooding raptors hooded like hangmen shifted sullenly upon their perches.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
“We groan beneath the yoke of hangmen / While drunken justice sodden sleeps,” he writes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
Two other hangmen hired in 2013 failed to show up for work.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2015
Even though they are rarely called on to carry out an execution, hangmen are paid a monthly stipend by local state governments of about 3,000 rupees or £30.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2014
None of my blood were hangmen; add that falsehood To a long bill, that yet remains unreckoned.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
