Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only victim was Siamese democracy itself, never a vigorous adversary. In place of a two-chamber parliament, half of whose members were elected, Phibun's new government would operate by consent of a one-chamber, one-party parliament, all of whose members would be appointed by Phibun...
...first time in all the bloody postwar history of satellite purges that a 100% Muscovite had been picked as the victim. On the surface it looked as if Gottwald had eliminated a dangerous competitor, and there were even people ready to believe that Gottwald was proving himself a potential Tito. More likely, the Kremlin had decided to jolt Czechoslovakia's rulers into meeting Soviet demands by striking down the man who had seemed safest of alL If the most loyal of them all could be convicted of disloyalty, so might men charged with even greater responsibility-President Gottwald...
Schneeberger Krankheit is not one disease, but a combination of three: 1)silicosis, caused by inhaling finely powdered rock dust, 2) cancer, brought on by radiation from the pitchblende, and 3) tuberculosis, as a complication of the first two. At first, the victim feels short of breath.Then he gets acute pains in the chest and back, and begins to cough a lot. Later comes a racking, bloody cough, rapid loss of weight, and a grey, cadaverous look about the face. The victim is doomed, though he may suffer on for months or years...
This theme is simply that "we all lose our innocence, one way or another; it's the normal thing." The story tells of a man, from the time he was 13 who shot and, he thought, killed another man, until he is 33 and finds his "victim" still alive...
...relentless climax. Michele incites acts of violence against landowners, sets fire to their homes, and leads a pathetic peasant march to divide the big estates. He is driven to the hills as an outlaw, finally cornered and killed. Nino looks on helplessly, convinced that his friend is a victim of injustice, but realizing, too, that he was not the man to lead the peasants: "You could not carry justice to mankind with hands that were befouled with so much blood...