Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third Polish army veteran offered even graver evidence. He testified that he watched from hiding in a nearby tree in October 1939, when 200 Polish officers were slaughtered by Red army soldiers at Katyn. It was night time, he said, and the victims were led two by two to the edge of a huge ditch illuminated by floodlights. "First," he continued, "they tied the [victim's] hands together and then tilted the head back, and they packed sawdust into the victim's mouth. If he showed signs of collapsing while in their hands, they just kicked him into...
...John Doe." The committee explained that it wanted to protect his relatives in Poland against Communist reprisals, though the witness himself had not requested anonymity. In an unhappy try for circus effect, the committee produced a genuine Russian pistol and got "Doe" to aim it at a volunteer victim while the flashbulbs popped...
Tabor Academy became the eighth straight victim of the freshman basketball team, 52 to 38, at Marion, Mass., yesterday afternoon. Coach Floyd Wilson substituted freely, as the Crimson romped to their ninth win against only one defeat...
...medics raised their eyebrows but did not laugh. Nor did they think he was wacky; he was just getting over a kind of fish poisoning which the medical profession calls ichthyotoxism. It is the only disorder doctors know of in which temperature reactions are reversed, e.g., a victim complains that his hot soup is cold, or that his ice water is scalding his tongue...
...this is, nobody knows. Nor does anybody know why a victim thinks his teeth are loose when they are not. In fact, there are plenty of mysteries about ichthyotoxism, and the chief of them is that doctors do not really know what causes ichthyotoxism. It is not to be confused with poisoning caused by the bite of a venomous fish, however, or by eating stale fish in which bacteria have been at work. It comes from eating fresh, healthy fish, of species that have been used as food for generations, e.g., the amberjack that poisoned the naval officer...