Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suppose that you were the victim or a holdup man, and later on, his son, who accepted the loot, knowing exactly how it was obtained, tossed you a handful of coins. Would you call that charity and would you respect the donor...
Last week a cast of the body of one who fled too late was being examined by Italian archaeologists at its resting place outside the Southern Gate of the city. It was the first figure of an eruption victim uncovered outside Pompeii's walls...
Since systematic excavations began in Pompeii in 1860, diggers have uncovered within the city limits the petrified-ash shells of the bodies of some 40 victims. Formed by the gradual decay of the body inside its ash wrappings, the shells retained over the years a near-perfect negative impression of the figure they had enclosed. By a technique refined by Archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri. currently in charge of Pompeii excavations, the presence of the ash cavities is detected by cautiously tapping the ground with blunted pickaxes. When the excavators spot a hollow, they drill several holes through the stratum...
...Tacho used to test his foes' veracity with a magneto-powered shocking device, la maqui-nita (the little machine), wired to the victim's testicles. "Hell," Tacho once said, "the damned thing isn't so bad. I've tried it myself-on my hand...
With tragedies in style, James Cagney made his TV dramatic debut on NBC's Robert Montgomery Presents, as a fumbling sergeant in the U.S. Military Escort Detachment carrying a flag-draped victim of a Communist mortar shell back to the boy's home town. LIFE Staff Writer Robert Wallace's script (Soldier from the Wars Returning) was a noble-minded but often pedestrian tone poem which confused patriotism with adulation of the anonymous dead. Cagney's usual clipped, staccato style was properly subdued-especially when, at the end, he tried to work out a salvation...