Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This conference is unique in history because the conditions in which we meet are unmatched in human experience," said Eden. "No war can bring the victor spoils; it can only bring him and his victim utter annihilation. Neutrals will suffer equally with the combatants. These are stern facts out of which we can, perhaps, win enduring peace at last." Division & Reassurance. Faure and Eden quickly added their weight to Ike's thesis that German unification was the conference's most urgent problem. "Germany must be unified; Germany cannot be neutralized. So long as the German problem...
...Recognizing that Russia fears a united Germany allied to the West ("I am not now going to argue whether those fears are justified"), Eden proposed that the four Geneva powers and Germany join a security pact on the Locarno model, each pledged to "go to the assistance of the victim of aggression, whoever it might be." Eden further proposed limits on the total forces on each side in Germany and the neighboring countries, to be checked by a system of "reciprocal control." Furthermore, playing to the Russian talk of a neutralized belt in Europe, he suggested "the possibility...
When Abdias' shock wore off, "murderer" and victim embraced, swore everlasting friendship, went arm in arm to see the warden. José told the astounded official what had happened, explained that a band of sugar workers had found him rifling the pockets of his unconscious victim and presumed Abdias dead. Turned over to local police and shunted from one backwoods station house to another, José, too, had thought the man dead, and had finally been convicted on the testimony of the sugar workers and his own confession despite the absence of a corpse. "This is highly irregular," murmured...
...black-masked bird with unsavory instincts, the shrike impales its prey on a thorn. In human form, the impaler is Ann Downs (tautly played by June Allyson), the impaled victim is husband Jim (Ferrer), the thorn their marriage. In flashbacks, the wife is shown mothering and dominating docile Jim. When his theatrical career crumbles for want of ever more inner props, Jim tries, in despair, to attach himself to another woman (Joy Page). But her reluctance to play Mom finally drives him to a jar of sleeping pills...
...Greeks started the rot by taking the myths of their predecessors, the Pelasgians and others, and changing them from female to male. They gave the manly sun priority over the womanly moon. They made a hero out of a man like Hercules, changing him from a mere lover-victim of the goddess into a lusty seducer of hapless nymphs and a symbol of strength. Socrates and Plato, Graves insists, went so far as to reject the female element completely, injected into Western veins a strong shot of romantic homosexuality that persists to this...