Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quick-thinking clergyman had made his peace with God and with the Fifth Commandment. Said he: "I did not kill the man because I wanted to. I did so because I had to. He had just killed one man, and he was coining to kill me. I was a victim of circumstances. It was an accidental death, just as though someone had deliberately stepped in front of my car. I could have died. But I didn't feel that a dead minister would help...
...Would you marry him?" Eartha: "That's a very silly question. Of course I would if I was inclined to be in love with him. But one or the other of us would have to go into the background." Unabashed, Tex swung again: "Would you marry a paleface?" Victim Kitt, still taken aback, said: "Yes, if I loved...
...asks the reader to share what Lael Tucker Wertenbaker calls her "abstract joy in the quality of his death," after which her "winter-white skin turned quite black and stayed dark for two days." It reports every intimate clinical detail of the pain, distress and hopelessness that afflict the victim of terminal cancer. As such, it tends to force into silence critics who may feel that they have been invited to share a private rite that Lael Tucker created about her dying husband-but who have doubts about its public validity...
...Burton Abbott-a former accounting student who was charged with murder after his wife found the murder victim's purse in the Abbott cellar-was led into the prison gas chamber, still quietly insisting on his innocence. After a minute, Warden Harley O. Teets shook hands with Abbott, murmured "God bless you." Replied the prisoner calmly: "Thank you." A doctor strapped the long tube of a stethoscope to Abbott's chest. Abbott sat quietly, bound to the execution chair. The warden and other officials left the chamber, bolted the door. Three minutes later the executioner pulled a lever...
...size of the drop depends on what happens to the Veterans' housing program, which currently accounts for a full quarter of all U.S. homebuilding starts. The program is rapidly being choked off, a victim of the tight-money policy which has made mortgage money unavailable for VA houses at the low (4½% maximum) rate permitted. The volume of appraisal requests to the VA is 57% below two years ago-even though the demand is still huge. In its twelve years of mortgage operation, the VA has guaranteed building loans for more than 5,000,000 veterans of World...