Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general, however, is neither politico nor businessman. Turned loose amid the sharp-eyed denizens of the commercial world, he would probably perish miserably, the victim of his own rigid honesty, faith in his fellow man, and his instinct to command or be commanded. He is a man who is perfectly willing to be shot if logic or honor demands-or to order thousands to their deaths-and does not fall easily into compromise. Even Lem Shepherd's small eccentricities are uncompromisingly military...
Last week the party expelled Guingouin, and, as usual, beat its victim to the smear. Said Communist L'Echo du Centre: ". . . For many years he [Guingouin] has been disposing of considerable sums, of indeterminate origin, under party control, which have been accumulated and hidden away in various secret places . . . The total of these clandestine deposits is many millions of francs." Although seven billion francs, seized in the train robbery, had been returned to the French government after liberation, a sum of three billion was still unaccounted...
Soon several Yale players and three cheerleaders were nursing wounds ranging from trivial to serious. When the head cheerleader fell victim to the suddenly savage dog, it was decided something must be done. And it was Handsome Dan VII has now gone the way of his six precedessors, although he alone can claim the distinction of being have untarily retired...
...victim of circumstances. A section meeting 2:00 Wednesday prevented me from worming my way into the mass of my classmates struggling for Yale tickets last week. What was I to do? My date, filled with tales of the rivalry's great tradition and color, insists that we "take in the apeciacle," as is her quaint way of speaking...
Last week, "on the basis of information received" from Korea, the Vatican declared Bishop Byrne dead, a victim of the Korean war. If the Vatican conclusion is correct, he is the second Roman Catholic bishop from the U.S. to die in Communist hands. The other, Francis X. Ford, also from Maryknoll, died last February in a prison hospital in Canton...