Word: victim
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...report their boat was a fisherman who said he saw them hove to about 10 at night with a larger craft alongside. Then a man's body, bound and strapped to a 98-lb. chunk of iron, washed ashore in the Trinidad Yacht Club's bay. The victim was identified as Philbert Peyson, member of an organized gang of burglars, holdup men-and possibly pirates. There was reason to believe that he was under suspicion by his fellow gangsters as an informer...
...Deacons had to clinch the cup the hard way, as Eliot's George Plimpton limited Kirkland to three hits, but was the victim of shoddy support. Jim Gabler, Deacon workhorse, allowed only four hits in receiving credit...
Despite the best efforts of our Circulation Department to prevent them, the indignities mentioned above do sometimes occur. If you happen to be the victim, I can only ask your forgiveness and pass along some information that may help you: If you will look at the address stencil on one of your recent copies of TIME, you will see two sets of three numbers just to the right of your name. The first two numbers of the lower line tell the month, the last one the year in which your subscription expires. For example, "050" means that your TIME subscription...
During his difficult talks on cold war strategy, Acheson was painfully reminded of one recent cold war victim. From Vienna, Mrs. Robert Vogeler had flown to see the Secretary and plead for U.S. action to win freedom for her husband, whom the Hungarians had jailed as a spy (TIME, Feb. 27). Acheson spent an hour with Mrs. Vogeler, assured her that the U.S. was doing everything in its power to obtain her husband's release. Said Mrs. Vogeler: "The Secretary was most charming and I am greatly encouraged...
Less Brine. Like Dr. Henry A. Schroeder (then at the Rockefeller Institute), with whom he corresponded, Dr. Schemm was soon sure that he was on the right track. The nub of his idea was that dropsy victims were not waterlogged, but brine-logged. Edema fluid, said he, is no more fit for the body to use than sea water. Excess sodium in the body, usually in the form of its chloride (common salt), takes large amounts of water to keep it in solution. Often its demands are so great that a dropsy victim is simultaneously suffering from a shortage...