Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began closing in, Britain embarked on an autumn grousing season, picked as its first target a member of the royal family. The victim: bonnie Prince Charles, 7, fresh back in Buckingham Palace after a long Scottish holiday. The question, quickly debated by irritable newspaper readers: Assuming that Charles has a brow, is it high, middle or low? Noting that on his return "the prince's hair was even closer to his eyebrows than usual," London's more or less crewcut Daily Express pressed the attack with a monumental grouse: "Not one photograph of him has ever revealed...
...When a burn victim has so little healthy skin left that it is difficult to find enough for grafting, it may be stretched by mincing it in a Waring Blendor and applying it with a spray, reported San Francisco's Drs. John S. Najarian and Horace J. McCorkle...
...victim removed last week was a strongly built man sprawling on his belly, legs wide apart, hands covering his face, neck drawn in. The minutely defined muscles of legs, arms and chest were bulging in their final death spasm. Theorized Archaeologist Maiuri: "Judging from the body's musculature and from the fact that the man was fleeing alone, I would say that he was a workman or a servant. He waited under some shaky roof or vault, hoping that the storm of lapilli, pumice and ash would pass over. Then, in the midst of the blinding storm and blackening...
...virus-decimated varsity cross country team, minus its top two runners, slaughtered an inexperienced University of Massachusetts varsity, making it its 16th consecutive victim last Friday on the Franklin Park course. The final score was, the varsity a perfect 15, UMass...
Earlier, the freshmen had made the UMass freshmen their fourth straight victim of their undefeated season...