Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower got word that Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd was about to make the old scandals more public than they already were. Ike wanted to beat Byrd to the draw. Hollyday was the victim...
Mark W. Cannon 2PA, yesterday's near-theft victim, identified the criminal as slim, five feet-seven inches tall, about 23 years old, and as wearing light clothes. This same robber, Toohy said, is probably responsible as well for thefts this year in Dunster, Leverett, and Eliot Houses and at the Law School's Hastings Hall...
...decided improvement, but hardly a smash. The story line was draggy, and the score was short of the big arias Italian audiences love. Most startling of all, perhaps, was the reform and regeneration of daughter Salome, who, in Mortari's version, winds up trying to save her poor victim. John the Baptist, and earning her own salvation...
...house to house peddler will soon be no more than a memory. Like the lamplighter that faded away over a quarter of a century ago, the doorstep salesman is fast becoming the victim of a cruel technology. The unending onslaught of bigger and better devices for the Good Life has added to his wares such items as electric pencil sharpeners and hair-scratching devices. And on occasion, he may even sell a Modern Magic water closet, a miniature reducing machine or even a toothbrush with a plastic handle to hold the paste. Even now his display case bulges to twice...
Perfect Crime. In Atlantic City, N.J., on trial for stabbing Charles Gorham, Willie May Baker revealed that she had since married her victim, went free after paying a $100 fine...