Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dossier is one of tyranny's most useful tools. Under the Communists, not even the highest official is exempt. In his dossier are recorded the youthful mistake, the relative's sin, the forgotten careless statement. The victim may walk free as air, but the dossier is like a terrible hook, invisibly lodged in his vitals. With a twitch of the string, it can bring a man down. It can even humble a nation...
...keener. And the best shark in the business was not too proud to indulge in a little gamesmanship. There was "Kokomo Joe" Sachs, who splashed his hands so freely with talcum powder that he managed to bathe his opponents and the table as well. "The whole joint," recalled one victim, "looked like an explosion in a flour factory." There was Robert Cannafax, who would pull a knife and stab himself in his wooden leg when his game went bad. Everyone knew how to sneeze, scratch, or reach for a towel just as his rival was shooting. But few could imitate...
Leverett House was the victim of economy and the machine age yesterday, as 17 maids left their posts for the last time. A skeleton crew of two remains to clean House offices, common rooms and the libraries, but students will face the student porters next Monday. The eightman crew, armed with compressor tanks and detergent, will scour bathrooms, bedrooms, and studies weekly...
...rebellion: it came from northern neighbor Nicaragua, but the attackers were nearly all insurrectionary Costa Rican expatriates. It failed as an invasion because any invasion becomes international business, and other American nations cooperated to seal off the invaders and send arms-specifically four F51 Mustang fighter planes* to the victim. It failed as a rebellion because the rebels were inept and badly misjudged their own strength...
...armed men dressed in civilian clothes, it said, had been caught inside the base. When asked to surrender, the group "unfortunately decided to resist arrest, resulting in six casualties." President Carlos Castillo Armas blamed the plot mostly on Arbencistas-diehard followers of pro-Communist ex-President Jacobo Arbenz, the victim of Castillo Armas' successful revolution last June...