Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman Catholic Church was not the only victim. The Reds have also brought relentless pressure on Hungary's Lutheran Church (500,000 members). Staunchly anti-Communist Lutheran Bishop Lajos Ordass, recently freed after serving almost two years in prison, was stripped of his clerical rank by a special church court. Last week, Hungary's Lutheran Church took another step toward surrender to the Red state by choosing an avowed supporter of the Communist regime to succeed Ordass. He was Laszlo Dezsery, 36, who had made his stand amply clear when two years ago he denounced his fellow pastors...
...Virgin & Victim. More staid in his outside activities than he used to be, Zanuck, the one-man studio, still gives a three-ring performance. In a story conference where he plays all the roles of scenes in the making, the bristle mustache suddenly twitches, and the face looks heavenward in horror. The jaw sags until the huge cigar droops from his lower lip like a wet sheet hanging from a tenement window. He leans back across the grand piano in his office. His voice becomes shrill and frightened. This is Zanuck impersonating a virgin in distress...
What also hurt was the snubs and ruthless practical jokes with which most of the club members liked to torment him. Zanuck, who has never lost the fervor for practical joking that he acquired as a constant victim of it, recalls that the pranks were "not always too pleasant, too nice...
This week, the rejoicing turned to gloom. One of the world's best-guarded babies had disappeared. Bird-lovers feared that Little 38 had become a victim of some marauding animal...
...movie scripter with high ideals and a low boiling point, is given to nasty outbursts in which he beats up friends, acquaintances and perfect strangers. When a checkroom girl is found strangled after an innocent visit to Bogart's apartment, the police suspect that she was the victim of one of his ugly moods. After an unconscionably long time, so does his girl friend, Gloria, who begins to wonder just when he will take a notion to bash her head in. Only a phone call from the police, who have caught up with the real murderer, keeps Bogart from...