Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begun to develop men who jump at shadows. Shadow-jumping caused the State Department to pocket-veto the nomination of Mildred McAfee Horton, distinguished educator and ex-WAVE commander, to the United Nations' Economic & Social Affairs Commission (TIME, June 1). Last week shadow-jumping accounted for another victim: Chicago Investment Banker David Lee Shillinglaw, in the running for an appointment to the U.N.'s Economic & Social Council. This time the jumpy one was a U.S. Senator, Illinois-Republican Everett Dirksen...
...were increasing by the minute. The families of the two youths put advertisements in the newspapers, showing intention to pay. But Fu Tak-iam kept stalling. He had been kidnaped himself seven years before, and knew that kidnapers aren't serious until they send a slice of the victim's ear. When his own ears had been sliced, his family paid...
...Buenos Aires alone; New York City, with a population nearly three times as large, has 20,000.) While in jail at the "disposition of the executive," political prisoners are treated reasonably well. In "interrogation" sessions, however, police often use torture. The accepted procedure is to strap the nude victim to a marble table, douse him with a bucket of cold water, and prod the eyelids and other sensitive parts of the body with a hot electric wire...
...Ultimate Victim of Repressions...
...Teachers Union, which has been opposing loyalty oaths and inquiries into the beliefs, opinions and associations of teachers for several years, has consistently maintained that the student is the ultimate victim of repressions directed against teachers. Events have borne out our warnings that the target cannot be limited--even if that were desirable--to alleged Communists, but that once launched the witchhunt had a logic of its own and ends by engulfing the freedom of all. We are not happy merely at having been proved right, but we are glad that others are seeing the truth of our admonitions...