Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blowing directly into the mouth of a person who has stopped breathing is the oldest method of artificial respiration known to man (and akin to the oldest technique of real respiration: the Lord's wafting life into Adam's nostrils). But distaste for touching a moribund victim has brought numerous alternatives, from rolling a man over a barrel to the Nielsen "back-pressure, arm-lift" method, which last year superseded the Schafer "prone-pressure" system in the manual of the American Red Cross (TIME...
...second time in two days, the varsity tennis team routed its opponent without the loss of a single set. The victim yesterday was a weak Boston University squad that succumbed 10-0 to the Crimson onslaught in the first home match of the season...
Immediately, the Freshman notified the police, who took the victim to the hospital and the gang to the station for questioning. The thugs, however, were released pending charges...
...back row of group pictures. With the help of Marshal Zhukov, Khrushchev defeated last year's drive by Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich to overthrow him, and then turned on the marshal. In this imposing progress down murderer's row, Bulganin was Khrushchev's ninth major victim. Moscow diplomats guessed that Bulganin, who is said to have taken increasingly to the bottle of late, might hang on to his Presidium seat for a while as a Deputy Premier...
...magic of the land's fierce sensuality. She flees to a sorcerer and dies in abortion. For a year, Owen's "chaste maple syrup soul" is frozen. Then he attends a frenzied voodoo initiation, slips into an illicit affair, takes to drink, and the tropics claim another victim...