Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delivering the most outspoken attack on Stalinist distortions of the past, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the clever Armenian economist, singled out the name of an all-but-forgotten Stalin victim named Kossior as an example of the kind of injustice done by one-man leaders. What made his name significant was that Kossior, a Ukrainian leader who lost out in the late '30s, was purged so that Nikita Khrushchev could get his job. The new collective leaders are not above such instructive hints to one another...
...week's end Coronary Victim Johnson returned to Washington to enter the Bethesda Naval Hospital for a checkup. Doctors reported his progress "has been very satisfactory...
...father Clark was wearing: his wife had given one to him and one to Tom for Christmas. Next day, when divers found Tom's body under the ice, authorities concluded that in the darkness he must have mistaken the reservoir for a snow-covered meadow. "Another victim," said Tom's father wearily, "of a criminal fraternity prank." At week's end, Deke national headquarters told its 51 chapters to see to it that there should be no such victim again...
...should I bother with my body," said Martin, a cerebral palsy victim and a brilliant student, "when it is so much easier to work with my mind?" Ellen, another patient, had a slight limp caused by a spinal injury at the age of two. It did not prevent her walking indoors, but she insisted: "I just can't cross the street." And Mr. Juskalian, a paraplegic, kept the hospital in an uproar by being disagreeable to everybody...
...varsity, now entrenched in the Ivy League cellar, with a record of 2 and 8, has not won a game since Jan. 13. In its last three away games, the quintet fell victim to Princeton, Columbia, and to Penn, a team the Crimson had previously beaten. Columbia, minus its high-scorer Chet Forte, holds first place in the league, closely followed by Princeton...