Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mazurkiewicz murdered for money to finance his high living, usually by drawing his victims into shady black-market deals, the real source of much of his own income. In 1943, Mazurkiewicz failed in his first attempt, when poison did not work on a Polish underground officer. He profited by this first distressing experience, put so much cyanide in the vodka of a black-marketeer that the fellow gave up his ghost and $1.200 with heartening dispatch. Victim No. 2, carrying 160.000 zlotys, was shot and his body dumped in a river...
...Victim No. 3 proved to be almost more trouble than he was worth: Mazurkiewicz was seen disposing of the body. But influential friends in the prosecutor's office intervened, and witnesses gladly changed their testimony under duress. Mazurkiewicz grandly threw a huge party for the prosecutor, police and witnesses in his handsome apartment−partly with the 225,000 zlotys lifted from Victim...
...Garage. Victim No. 4 was a gentleman named Jerzy de Laveaux who lived in the apartment above Mazurkiewicz and possessed, among other things, a 42-lb. solid gold bar, a ten-carat diamond worth $5,000 and perhaps $10.000 in American greenbacks (the standard black-market medium). Mazurkiewicz invited him into the woods to swap currencies, then murdered him and dumped his body in the river...
Famed British Novelist Joyce (The Horse's Mouth) Cory, 67, failed to understand why the newspapers were so maudlin about his impending doom. Now in a wheelchair as a victim of an incurable paralytic disease, Author Cary was astonishingly sanguine over his fate: "I'm not being sentimental about it. I'm still alive and I can still work, and I might be dead anyway ... I don't think I'm going to die tomorrow. Perhaps in five or seven years, the doctors...
...things age, but with the magic of the glazes preserved, and with those final accents which confer unity, balance, atmosphere, expression-in fact all the most important and moving qualities in a work of art. But after these terrible cleanings, little of all this remains . . . Falling upon their victim, [the scientific restorers] commence work on one corner, and soon proclaim a 'miracle'; for, behold, brilliant colors begin to appear. Unfortunately what they have found are nothing but the preparative tones, sometimes even of the first sketch [made] in preparation for the execution of the finished work...