Word: scream
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Americans believe that police protection, fire protection, elementary and secondary education, and roads are public goods: The government has to provide them or we scream and yell. Before we can make any fundamental change in our health care system, we must acknowledge, decades behind the rest of the industrialized world, that health care is a public good...
MARTIN: The thing to do is to scream and say, "Oh, I'm sorry, you startled me." Then move away. They don't do it a second time...
...Many crimes have only one witness. Most muggings are one witness against the person he identifies in a lineup three months later. A mugging, it's 90 seconds -- don't scream, don't look at my face, give me your money -- often from behind. A sex offense rarely lasts less than 15 to 20 minutes, and if the assailant has the victim in her apartment, on a rooftop, it can last an hour. So the information is there through every one of her senses, unlike other kinds of crime. No one forgets really. It's getting her to trust what...
...depends. Screaming, if you're in the lower tunnel in the bowels of Grand Central station and there's nobody around to hear you, does nothing more than aggravate the offender, and he uses more force. I've had women who have seen someone close enough -- perhaps within earshot -- and a scream and a kick in the groin worked to send the offender packing. I've never had self-defense training, but I've heard from many women that it gives them confidence about confronting the situation. Some have successfully talked people down from rape...
Normality withers in this anthology, only to be reborn in grotesque form. The bleak life of a homeless woman is snuffed out through blind chance in "Zombies on Broadway," by Kaz, whose characters recall the hollow face and tortured body of the man in Edvard Munch's "The Scream." And woodcut figures ride the subway to self-immolation in the Village Voice's Mark Beyer's "The Unpleasant Subway...