Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This type of attack is nothing new for the country. Nor are the Senator's methods new. After claiming that his victim is a member of a group classified as "subversive" by the attorney general, the Senator reasons that this person is obviously a supporter of the nation's enemies and should be dealt with as such...
...Uproar. Last week this policy was creating a very satisfactory uproar. As ship after ship steamed into New York harbor, immigration authorities seized one distinguished victim after another. There was Friedrich Gulda, a talented 20-year-old Austrian pianist who had come to give a concert in Carnegie Hall (Gulda had been required to join a Nazi youth group at the age of ten). Famed Conductor Victor de Sabata, who conducted at Tanglewood earlier this year and was coming again as guest conductor for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, had conducted Milan's La Scala orchestra during the Mussolini regime...
Knives were flashing in Washington. A new victim had drawn into sight: Alan Valentine, the newly appointed Economic Stabilization director. He had been promisingly launched as a sensible educator, a middle-of-the-road businessman, a Quaker and a Rhodes scholar. Then the Potomac knife throwers went to work. Their efforts provided a fascinating peek at how such things work in the nation's capital...
...Bill of Sale. Early this month another former concentration-camp victim gave Yvonne a tip. The name Yvonne gave to the police was that of one of France's best amateur horsewomen, the Comtesse Fides.de Marliave. Comte Bernard had known the Comtesse de Marliave casually before the war at the very smart riding club, Cercle de l'Etrier...
...University of Connecticut became the soccer team's fourth victim yesterday as the Crimson, playing raggedly for the first three periods, won 2 to 0 on the Business School Field. Ten saves by goalie Dick Craven and some fine on-the-run shooting by center forward Vern Drehmel pulled the game out of the fire...