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
A notebook and other items belonging to Britain's most famous hangman has sold at auction for £20,000.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2019
The show that brands itself as “America’s game,” and perhaps that is fitting because, in essence, it is an awkward marriage of hangman and roulette.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2019
The paper was covered in her work trying to decode it, which looked like a bunch of unfinished hangman games minus the hanging men.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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
The two hangmen are often called out to Jamaica, the Bahamas, Cyprus, British Honduras.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2014
This same Becon called upon the temporal rulers to "be no longer the pope's hangmen."
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)
