Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That appraisal came true with shocking emphasis last Saturday both for Sebo and for a man named Jordan Olivar. The Quakers' coach should be now even more convinced that in the Ivy League you can't take anything for granted, for last week his team was the victim of the League's biggest upset thus...
...Fallen Saved. Last week The Drunkard's lachrymose prose reverberated no more in Los Angeles, where the show was revived in 1933 at the small, stucco Theatre Mart and reeled on for the longest run in U.S. theatrical history: 9,477 performances. The play was a victim of exhaustion and the local fire department (which recently cut the Theatre Mart's top capacity from 340 seats to an uneconomic...
...short sleeve welded inside the barrel so that real bullets cannot be fired. The blanks the pistols accommodate cost only a dime apiece. For scenes when the audience actually sees a man shot down, "blood capsules" fired from compressed air guns splatter against Plexiglas plates hidden beneath the victim's clothing. There are special bullets filled with flaked aluminum to simulate shattering glass; others are packed with a sticky powder to make telltale puffs of dust when they ricochet off a wall...
...just another fellow prisoner, into a garrulous, sentimental clown. As the axman prattles on about being not some "unfamiliar terrible somebody, but a tender friend," Author Nabokov develops the memorable conceit that the rite of execution is both a public festival and a black sacrament, in which victim and executioner are as intimately linked as bride and groom...
...Quincy House elevator system swallowed its third victim of the season last night, when Peter M. Sieglaff '62, found himself trapped between the fourth and fifth floors in the central shaft from 5 p.m. until...