Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson baseball team, which has been squeaking by on one-run victories all season, ran out of luck yesterday. Leading Yale 4 to 3 going into the ninth inning, the varsity suddenly fell victim to a six-run Eli rally and went down to a 9-4 defeat...
Executive mouth is not limited to jobs with tension, says Dr. Lynch; even manual laborers with a strong drive to succeed may take their troubles out on their teeth. The executive-mouth victim might conceivably "be a ditchdigger who gets frustrated because he wants to dig better ditches, and somehow...
...space salesman who flourished in Ulysses. Because of the things that went on inside Bloom's head, writing has not been quite the same again; since he had his big, long, exhausting day, something called the interior monologue has rattled around inside many an emptier head. The latest victim of the idea that anything and everything goes, especially on paper, is an American named James Patrick Donleavy, whose cross-pollination with Bloom has produced a rank Jimson weed. Its name: Sebastian Dangerfield, chief character of a mad, and-by British critics-madly praised novel called The Ginger...
...Hankinson, had discovered an amended birth certificate that transformed sister Laura Maude into brother Laurence Michael. Newsmen last week found the doctor himself at Philadelphia, aboard the British freighter, City of Bath, on which he serves as medical officer. Bearded, pipe-smoking Dr. Dillon explained that he was a victim of hypospadias, that he had sensed in his teens he was different from other girls, and that his voice "became deeper than a female's but higher than a male's" when he was 20. From 1945 to 1949 he underwent a series of operations to make...
...pinpricks are felt, but Belle is the real victim. She falls prey to a peculiarly horrifying variety of lupus, a disease that leaves her skin pocked and blotched. Nature turns the tables on 18-year-old Isa, too. As the mother fails, the daughter blooms. From Isa's great hate for Maurice blossoms, first, interest, and next, fascination. One midnight, when the slip-clad girl goes downstairs to fasten a banging door, she is waylaid by the panther-ishly urgent lawyer. Next morning she tries in vain to scare up her conscience: "You have a lover. You slept with...