Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Madrid was blacked out last week, victim of Spain's worst drought in five years. With her hydroelectric reserves down to less than 5% of capacity, the capital's factories were reduced to a nine-hour work week. Offices shooed workers home early on streetcars and subways that barely moved for lack of power. Women queued up at public fountains for water (turned off ten hours each day in homes). In shop windows and coffeehouses candles and oil lamps replaced light bulbs and neon signs. Movies were limited to one show daily. While helpless officials talked of building...
...voters were in a mood to teach Harry Truman the hoary lesson that no politician ever has the U.S. voter in his pocket. A beaten Scott Lucas decided, and probably correctly, that he was the victim in part of Harry Truman's cockiness. He ruefully recalled the President's arrogant preelection remark in St. Louis that any farmer or laborer who voted Republican should have his head examined. The angry Lucas was sure the crack had hurt him, that Illinois voters had decided among other considerations that it was time to take Harry Truman down...
...House football season ended yesterday with a 12 to 7 Adams triumph over Dunster. Win-less Dudley, mean-while, scored for the first time this year but fell a 32 to 6 victim to second place Lowell...
...Russia should choose to attack Yugoslavia, or China to attack Nepal, or Bulgaria to attack Greece, such attacks could and would be surrounded by a barrage of notes and broadcasts showing that the victim was the aggressor and the aggressor the victim...
...Gimby promptly cut out all home medication and treatment by family doctors, insisted that every victim go through the city's treatment centers. "I believe a new deal will come out of this epidemic here," he said. "Too many people, and even too many doctors, don't know enough about this pesky disease." Main plank in Dr. Gimby's new deal for ringworm : changes in health laws to make the disease reportable and handled as a public health problem...