Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cowards. The report stresses the inhuman program of horror which they underwent, and points up the extreme heroism of those who did not sign, rather than attaching any special blame to the men who broke under the strain. After days of beatings and starvation, the Communists would make a victim dig his own grave, then they put a pistol to his head, and gave him a final chance to sign a confession. It is not difficult to understand how a man could convince himself that it was all right to sign...
...Senator Milton R. Young, a professional Benson foe, got new headlines by demanding the Secretary's resignation. One of the few members of Congress to come to Benson's defense was Vermont's George Aiken, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, who said Benson was the victim of a "vicious smear campaign...
...Biographer M. Marion Marberry, an ex-newspaperman, makes abundantly clear in a breezy, irreverent biography, Miller was less the victim of literary fashion than of simple justice. The sole significance of his first-known poem is not its idiosyncratic spelling...
...supposed victim was still alive...
...politics of expediency . . . working behind the scenes trying to unseat" this noble figure . . . Should we laugh at this picture of our Machiavellian activities or cry, knowing that for the aggressors every war has been undertaken as a moral crusade? . . . If I knew I were to be the victim of aggression, I would prefer that my aggressor was prompted by honest-to-goodness motives of rape and plunder...