Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here was a conception brand-new to the long and fruity annals of jurisprudence. Under this conception, if the policeman finds that the dagger has penetrated the victim's flesh, it is permitted that he seize the criminal by the wrist and force him to withdraw the knife; but he may not take the dagger away, much less arrest the criminal...
...Part II ("Nazi Concentration Camp, Ravensbrück") will be familiar reading to those who have conscientiously suffered through the tales of terror told by other survivors of NKVD or Gestapo imprisonment. Taken together, the two parts balance the scales in a deadly parallel never before made by a victim of both regimes. Author Buber's conclusion: there was little to choose between them...
Crossfire. In Bangkok, a stickup man nabbed by a victim explained to police that he used a toy pistol instead of a real one because his boss had given him strict orders not to hurt anybody...
Agonized Frustration. When his "victim" first starts talking into the microphone, Dr. Fairbanks sets the time interval just like the normal one. The speaker is rather surprised to hear his own words so loudly and clearly. Then Dr. Fairbanks gradually lengthens the time interval until the speaker hears each syllable one-twenty-fifth of a second later than is normal. The result: the speaker is slowly driven toward the gibbering stage. His words won't come; he stammers, repeats, screams in agonized frustration. His face turns red; he sweats and trembles, showing many of the symptoms of emotional disorder...
Aviation to Xylophones. By the middle '30s, Mencken's influence had begun to fade. Mencken was as much the victim of the depression as the shivering vagrant to whom he once gave his overcoat on Times Square. He refused to take the depression seriously: "What goes up must come down. [That's] all the economic theory worth knowing." But a frightened and hungry U.S. public had no stomach for ridicule, and ridicule had always been the popular basis for the Mencken boom. By the late '30s, many bright young people barely knew who Mencken...