Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sabrina Fair Margaret Sullavan is called upon to be twenty-odd years old and girlishly bouncy. Now, Miss Sullavan is attractive and talented, but she has been attractive and talented for quite some time. What is more, for the past ten years she has fallen victim to an incurable disease or crippling accident in every stage role. She just isn't up to bouncing...
...after all, a holy land, and because Aramco values its royalties and the U.S. its big air base. Sometimes Americans lose their tempers; whether they are right or wrong in any particular ruckus, they are usually shipped home. One American was shot and wounded by a Saudi with the victim's own gun. The American was reprimanded for having a weapon, and deported; the shooter was admonished and set free...
...picked on the wrong victim. To a 31-year-old major just back from the disastrous Palestine war, he said: "Young man, you've been seen going into their headquarters. You've been giving the Brotherhood military training. Come clean with me." The soft-spoken major denied the accusations, though, as he later admitted, "I had a paper in my wallet which would have proven my guilt." At the first chance, the young officer excused himself, went to the toilet, flushed the paper away, and returned. Unable to prove anything against the major, Hady told...
Assailant Thomson and Victim Meuler, both automobile men, had taken to each other at their first chance meeting two years ago. Six months later, full of hope and mutual admiration, they formed a partnership and bought a Nash agency (the T and M Motors) in Newport. It was a shoestring venture (in case of some unforeseen accident, they took out $10,000 double-indemnity life-insurance policies on each other), but for a while they did well. Dick moved in with Jim and his wife and two children, and they lived together, ate together and worked together...
...University of Alabama, ranked among the top ten in pre-season polls, went into its first game against little Mississippi Southern full of confidence, reeled off the field the victim of a stunning defeat. Alabama rolled up a 12-6 score in the first half, then faded and lost...