Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reference to Hugh Latimer, 16th century Protestant bishop who was burned at the stake during Queen Mary's reign. As he prepared for death, Latimer said to a fellow victim and bishop, Nicholas Ridley: "Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as, I trust, shall never...
...Arabs and 120,000 Frenchmen in Morocco's teeming, gaudy boomtown Casablanca, some 1,000 miles from the scene of the murder, had even heard of the victim, Tunisian Labor Leader Farhat Hached (TIME, Dec. 15). Yet Casablanca's Nationalist daily El Alam that day urged all Moroccan workers to mourn his death in a general strike. At a strike meeting in the headquarters of the General Union of Moroccan Syndicates, Abdesslem Jibli, knife-faced, hot-eyed Arab leader, fanned the flame of hatred for France before a crowd of some 1,700 turbaned Arabs and serge-suited...
...usual procedure in Communist Czechoslovakia: a strong, thin, silken noose, tied around the victim's neck, is then passed over a pulley at the top of a heavy stake. The victim is dropped from such a low elevation that his neck is not immediately broken. The executioner, who is standing near by, accomplishes this with his hands...
...either sex, undetected adrenal tumors usually kill the victim. The best remedy is surgery to remove the tumor. This restores the normal balance for the patient's sex. For overactive adrenals with no tumor, small doses of cortisone now do the trick...
When Bela Schick was still a boy in Hungary, German researchers tracked down the microbe which causes diphtheria, and isolated the poisonous secretion which makes a strange, strangling membrane grow across many a victim's throat. They got as far as developing a horse serum which could be used either as a preventive against the disease or as a remedy after it had struck. But so many people got sick from the serum itself that doctors hated to give it as a preventive unless they could be sure that it was really necessary. They needed a test to show...