Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students were surprised by the case with which the holds work. For example, one instructor demonstrated a combination press and neck hold. "Don't use much pressure. Just take your time. All you have to do is shut off the brain's blood supply." He grinned and began. The victim was on his back smiling for twenty seconds before his eyes glazed and face blanched. Later, while the instructor massaged his neck, he noted, "All of a sudden, whom...
Everyone gives and takes in good spirit. Even Leo, after his partner stumbled and plummeted into his mid-section, gasped, "If they don't get you one way, it's another." Another victim crawled across the floor soothing his back after an unsuccessful flip, when his partner asked, "Did I hurt you?" Once of the younger pupils was unserved by a misplaced heel. "He got my middle toe!" he cried, while the instructor explained that although Nishimoto style is not so gentlemanly as jujitsu, neither is it "rough like judo...
...popular picture of the coronary victim as a burly businessman, fat and soft from overeating and lack of exercise, who smokes and drinks too much because [of his stressful climb to the top] is a caricature." The type exists, but often escapes coronary disease while men of other types fall victim...
...Young. When a coronary branch has been narrowed sufficiently to slow the blood to a virtual standstill, a thrombus (clot) will form and block the flow altogether. However, only a minority of heart attacks are fatal, and many are not even detected during the victim's lifetime. Why the difference between a dramatic thrombosis as in the case of President Eisenhower and the individual who sleeps through his heart attack? The answer lies in the gradualness of the process that narrows the coronary artery concerned. If it constricts slowly for months, the heart brings into play its self-repair...
...other characters have been adapted with varying degrees of success, however. Boris Karloff is a restrained and very effective Cauchon. While he is sympathetic, the role demands an unwavering conception of duty which permits little new interpretation. Theodore Bikel, as Robert de Beauricourt, is properly rowdy but perhaps a victim of the incongruity of French and American vulgarity. His almost Prussian manner may be an attempt to breach the gap, but it is an inadequate one. If Christopher Plummber had rendered Warwick American-style, the result would have been ludicrous. Happily, he has adopted all the confidence of the cynical...