Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, Alvarez counseled against lying to a dying patient or keeping up a cheerful farce for his supposed benefit. In one way or another, the patient usually finds out or guesses what his condition is, and then his miseries are increased by annoyance at the dissembling physician. Sometimes the victim is not so much appalled by impending death as he is by the prospect of leaving his wife or husband. In that case, Alvarez talks frankly to both: "You two know perfectly well what this disease is, so why should you now be lying to one another, as you never...
...Anglo-Iranian's holdings, which include the world's biggest refinery. Last week's Majlis resolution contained a clause inviting foreign experts to help in nationalization. The experts could scarcely be British or American. If Iran (improbably) turned to Russia for such aid, it would fall victim of a far harsher imperialism than the British ever imposed...
Like the vale of Kashmir, Gore Hall is now nestling in the middle of an armed truce. One day a recognized territory of Winthrop House, the next day it was a victim of one of the historical accidents which have brought such grief to Palestine, the Sudetenland, and Transylvania in recent times...
Fire engines streamed into the Mount Auburn Street sector once again at 9:30 p.m. last night, bringing a crowd of expectant students into the streets within minutes, Claverly was not the victim this time, however; the "blaze" was merely an awning fire in front of the Gold Coast Valeteria, started by a cigarette butt dropped from a window above. A similar accident occurred about a year...
...readers not to buy U.S. bonds, although the Washington. Times-Herald and some other papers thought it fit to print. Wrote Peg: "Any corporation . . . promoting the purchase of Government bonds on the pretense that such bonds are good investments, is either a party to a confidence game or a victim of stupid management. In either case I am not kidded...