Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record (139.6 m.p.h.), Veteran Miller never won the annual 500-mile speedway classic, decided that this year's attempt would be his last. He climbed into his V-8 Novi Special for a fast practice spin, lost control, crashed into the barrier, became the speedway's 43rd victim...
What the visible enemies left of a man, the invisible ones were ready to attack. Influenza, tertian fever, leprosy were all endemic, along with tapeworm and a mysterious intestinal infestation that made its victim long to eat earth...
...outrageous indignities. Do we Americans realize the dire condition of intellectual restraint now exercised in this country of ours? Not only can every crank discredit the object of his disfavor by labeling him a Communist, but it has now become extremely unwise for anyone to go to the victim's defense...
When handsome Highway Patrolman Leonard Kirkes was convicted of second-degree murder at Carpinteria, Calif, (pop. 2,864), many of his fellow citizens felt that justice had triumphed over long odds. Kirkes was not brought to trial until eight years after the death of his supposed victim, 20-year-old Margaret Senteney, and the trial took place then only because Sheriff John Ross had painfully gathered up snippets and scraps of circumstantial evidence and had fitted them into a damning whole (TIME...
...stubborn, dedicated World War II leader of the Free French reminded the Left that, by turning against him after cooperating energetically in the establishment of the Fourth Republic, it had caused him to retire, and had then fallen "victim of the confusion of powers it had itself created." He reminded the Right that by coming back into public life in 1947 with his Rally of the French People, he had diminished the danger of Communism, internally and externally, but that the Right, "reassured, hostile to my desire for social action, influenced moreover by the feudal lords of money and press...