Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rats and rabbits. She took skin from embryos in the first third of gestation, found that it made a permanent graft on 45% of unrelated adults, grew a good crop of hair. Memorial Hospital's Plastic Surgeon Reuven K. Snyderman applied the technique to cancer patients and burn victims. From human embryos lost (from spontaneous or therapeutic abortion) during the first 4½ months of pregnancy he took skin grafts for eight patients. Four failed to take, probably because of infection, Dr. Snyderman suggested. The other four took. Most remarkable was the fact that a postage-stamp-size piece...
...charged with murder. Caril called wildly for her dead mother until a doctor gave her a sedative and she cried herself to sleep. Starkweather grinned at newsmen, airily admitted the killings and agreed to extradition, confessed also that two months before he had committed an eleventh murder. His first victim: 19-year-old Lincoln Service Station Attendant Robert Colvert, who was held up, taken to a lonely road and shot in the head...
...reply to an Indonesian request for arms by offering such harmless items as trucks and jeeps, but State again turned him down. Allison's friends complain that his position has been badly distorted in press leaks from Washington (TIME. Dec. 23), believe that he is the victim of some quiet but effective bureaucratic knifing...
...Barn. Until the 1930s, the stock figure of the veterinarian in U.S. life was the horse doctor who operated, with a heavy harness to restrain his unanesthetized victim, in any handy barn. He would handle anything from a Chihuahua to a Percheron, prescribed more worm medicine than any other treatment. Today's vets usually have a couple of years of college, a four-year V.M. course, and must pass a state licensing examination. Their number has nearly doubled (to 19,257) in 20 years. Though a great majority (perhaps 85%) still work mostly on livestock-swine, sheep, cattle, horses...
...hundred of pages, battles sway to and fro indecisively-allowing ample space in between for dispatch riding, witch hunting, potion brewing, gypsy camping, idol smashing and other 17th century pastimes. Acting as spy for Charles, Lord Leyland falls in love with Froniga's (Parliamentary) niece, then falls victim to a gypsy beauty (mother of three cute little bastards named Dinki, Meriful and Cinderella) who hexes him with thorns stuck in his wax image. At death's point Francis is rescued by Yoben, who proves to be a disguised Roman Catholic priest and is hanged at Henley (near Author...