Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...message demanding freedom for Navab Safavi, imprisoned leader of Iran's most feared terror group-Fadayan Islam. The terrorists had picked young Mohammed Mehdi Mojtahedi to kill Fatemi because capital punishment does not apply to teen-age killers in Iran. The boy told cops that the next victim on Fadayan's schedule was Premier Mossadegh, because he flirted with foreigners...
...Alley one day last week, Major George A. Davis Jr., greatest of U.S. jet fighter aces, chopped down two Communist MIG-15s, his 13th and 14th kills in the Korean war. With a wingman, he swept past ten more MIGs looking for the day's third victim...
...public appearances because of pain in his right leg and foot. This was caused by a narrowing of the arteries: not enough blood was getting through, the foot was often extremely cold, and there was danger of gangrene. The King's doctors decided that their patient was a victim of thromboangiitis obliterans, also called Buerger's disease.* They found, too, that all the King's arteries were hardening beyond his years...
...blast had traveled along the anesthesia tube: bright red blood from broken vessels in the lungs was filling Patient Cummings' windpipe. The blood was drained off, and a mask was fitted to give artificial respiration. But little more than two hours later, Father Cummings was dead, the victim of the kind of accident every hospital dreads. Explosions of anesthetic gases (in this case, a mixture of nitrous oxide, ether and cyclopropane) happen about once in 75,000 operations, and are almost certain to cause serious injury to the patient, if not death...
...that she has become a prostitute in the squalid; segregated shantytown where the plight of black-skinned people in a white man's world is shockingly evident. The black voyager also finds that his only child, Absalom, has murdered a young white champion of the oppressed Negroes. The victim, by a further twist of fate (and fiction), is the son of the Negro-hating landowner (Charles Carson) in whose district the minister lives. In the end, the two fathers, symbolically drawn together by a common tragedy, point up Paton's comfort-in-desolation moral of hate cast...