Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congeners. Experts have long known that some of the unpleasant results of drinking hard liquor are caused by infinitesimal amounts of contaminants technically known as "congeners." The hangover victim who argued, "It isn't the alcohol, it's the congeners," was largely right, but chemists did not know which congeners were to blame. A new technique for separating minute amounts of congeners, said Consultant Robert Carroll, working with Connecticut's Perkin-Elmer Corp., has made it possible to identify eight congeners already, with more to come. Definitely harmful among those identified are acetaldehyde and isoamyl alcohol...
...Francisco stores. The District Court thereupon concluded that the suit was a "purely private quarrel." Flatly rejecting the argument, the Supreme Court said the conspiracy against Klor's was a full-fledged illegal restraint of trade. "As such, it is not to be tolerated merely because the victim is just one merchant whose business is so small that his destruction makes little difference to the economy. Monopoly can as surely thrive by the elimination of such small businessmen, one at a time, as it can by driving them out in large groups...
...individual businessman who is the victim of a conspiracy by his competitors and suppliers the U.S. Supreme Court last week handed a potent antitrust club. Overruling two lower courts, it ordered a trial for a private businessman on the ground that the attempted elimination of even one merchant from the market tended to monopoly...
Soon, of course, the perfect crime collapses into a heap of all-too-human, even childish errors-Judd was so rattled that he dropped his spectacles beside the body of the victim. The boys are questioned, tricked into confession, ordered to trial...
...costume; he wanders abstractedly, clutching a camera and a sackful of pointless documents. Says a woman, exasperated to find herself in love with him: "What do you think you are, a saint?" That is precisely the point about Antoine Montés: he is a scarecrow and a chronic victim, but he is also a kind of saint-a holy fool...