Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rheumatoid arthritis is not only a disease of the joints, researchers reported to the American Rheumatism Association: a victim is likely to develop also rheumatoid heart disease and a disorder of the blood vessels, especially in the legs...
Because his child was killed [by a teenage hoodlum] gives more reason than ever for Research Chemist William Blankenship to carry on his work to rid the street "jungles" of such criminals and the causes that contribute to their creation. The young victim is a martyr to the cause. For most every good and lasting cause, someone...
...second Lowell House contribution to the week's wreckage was a fire which started in a couch and which almost took the life of an inhabitant who was strangely reluctant to leave it. Neighbors rescued the victim by smashing a fire-door and then called the engines. Some 50 scholars turned out fully clothed to watch the scene...
...pleasing exceptions such as the Dudley lockers, the Dunster House bench, and the fencing picture, share the woodenness of its prose. More pictures should be taken with natural light or diffused flash, instead of simply with a flashgun mounted on a camera and aimed straight at the victim. While Draper Hill's cartoon House shields are quite well drawn, Gaylen C. Bergren's drawings of the House Masters suffer from the quite serious defect of not even resembling at least half of the subjects...
...inner ear, and in little muscular pressure points located through the body - that tells man whether he is level, falling, upside down or accelerating. This delicate balance sense is closely connected with the nervous sys tem. If disturbed, it can produce effects ranging from nausea (as any victim of seasickness knows) to incapacitating shock...