Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first victim was a 38-year-old Negro woman named Evergreen Flowers. Forty or 50 Klansmen stormed her house one night, chased her husband away, shot up the place with a hundred bullets, gagged the woman with her slip, tied her legs with plow lines and beat her with sticks and gun butts. Just why she was flogged was not clear. Klansmen said vaguely that she had been "running around with white men." Others were flogged for not attending church regularly, cursing near women, drinking too much...
...these effects can be felt with ordinary jet engines. Afterburner noise makes them more intense and adds some effects of its own. Men exposed to an afterburner's sound field for the first time are overwhelmed by terror and panic. They want desperately to escape, or as one victim put it, "to roll yourself into as small a ball as possible...
...Houston, therefore, that the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis decided to conduct its biggest test of an inoculation which may make polio milder if it strikes and save the victim from permanent paralysis. There is no evidence that it can prevent polio. The material to be inoculated is gamma globulin, a blood fraction which contains antibodies against several diseases (TIME, Nov. 5). Tried in Provo, Utah on a scale too small to be decisive (TIME, April 28), it is to be given this week to half of 35,000 Houston youngsters aged one to six; the other half-the "control...
Some passengers who ride with G are naval airmen, but the G-doctors often submit themselves to experiment. The doctors insist that riding with G is not very dangerous; the instruments watch the victim's condition, and the arm can be stopped quickly if he gets in bad shape...
...Williams hopes that this freeze-dry method will reveal new information about bacteria and viruses. He hopes, for instance, to freeze viruses in the very act of attacking victim cells...