Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black Eye, White Wine. During the tournament's three days, the air buzzed with flying disks and gyrating Schinden. One Hornnss-stung player was borne off with a brain concussion. At a beer counter, another casualty stood with his head bandaged and his eye black-the victim, like half a dozen others, of a falling Schindel. At tournament's end, Basel's Helvetia Society, with 1,112 points, no penalties, got the champion's oakleaf wreath and a two-gallon, silver-studded drinking horn brimming with white wine. Farmer Gruber, with 104 personal points...
...hours by holding the breath, drinking water, applying heat to the diaphragm or breathing into a paper bag (to raise the carbon dioxide content of the air breathed). But not Jack O'Leary's. Hiccuping that goes on for months or years can eventually kill the victim through exhaustion and starvation...
Another Middle East King lost his throne: 43-year-old Talal of Jordan, after a tragic eleven-month reign. Adored by his people, Talal fell victim not to a plot but to schizophrenia, which grew steadily worse despite treatment in Switzerland. This week Jordan's Parliament sorrowfully deposed him. He is succeeded by his son, Crown Prince Hussein, a thin, introspective adolescent. Interesting coincidence : Hussein and his cousin, King Feisal of Iraq, studied at Harrow at the same time, will each rule a Hashemite kingdom at the same time, on reaching 18, next...
...headed for a nearby house. The driver, a middle-aged man, stayed behind to lock the automobile's doors. Jacobs muttered, "This is it." He sidled up to the man, poked him in the ribs with the pistol and ordered him to get back behind the wheel. The victim, a warehouse supervisor named Alfred McCullaugh, obeyed without a word. Green climbed in beside him. The pistolwaving Jacobs got into the back seat...
...waters, chlorophyll tablets and electronically-treated toilet tissues, the U.S. relentlessly wars on the odors of nature. This preoccupation with the olfactible has made social outcasts of millions who are, in the language of the ads, not dainty, including Li'l Abner's Moonbeam McSwine. The latest victim is a town-probably at the moment the most deeply disgraced town in the U.S. For, like Moonbeam McSwine, Secaucus, N.J. (pop. 9,750 people and 75,000 pigs...