Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christie. A London bobby recognized him in a Putney street, arrested him. The state based its case against him solely on the murder of his wife. At the trial, instead of denying the murder, his attorneys enlarged upon his crimes. In the witness box Christie described the seven killings. Victim No. 1 was Austria-born Ruth Margaret Fuerst, met in a snack bar in 1943, brought home to No. 10 during his wife's absence. Said Christie, scratching his head and licking his lips: "Well, I strangled her. I seem to remember it ... I think I can say firmly...
...Victim No. 4 was his wife, who had, he said, wakened him one night in a convulsive fit. He strangled her with a stocking. Victim No. 5 was Kathleen Maloney who, he said sadly, demanded money for his attentions to her; No. 6 was Rita Nelson, who was six months pregnant; No. 7 was Hectorina MacLennan, a young Scottish mother...
...crowd pressed in while the bar height was rechecked. It was actually 6 ft. 11 ⅝ if in., but, because the A.A.U. does not reckon with eighths of inches, the new mark was set down at 6 ft. ½ in. Next goal for Davis, a onetime polio victim who took ballet lessons last winter to improve his body control...
...Tehuanas bathing in the river can testify, painstakingly clean. Inhibitions hardly exist, as even their superstitions show: if a man feels an overwhelming urge to smack a girl's bottom, Tehuanas think he'd better do it, rather than restrain himself and thus make the girl the victim of his covetous evil...
Marshall College in Huntington, West Virginia fell victim to pressure more specific than a loyalty oath. The Legion post in Huntington matched its "guidebooks" with the proposed lecture series at Marshall College and found three similarities: Margaret Bourke-White, a Life photographer; Paul Engle, a poet; and Professor Max Lerner of Brandels University. The Legionaires protested vigorously, and finally, the President of the College cancelled the three lectures...