Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victim's father said: "We're going to take the boy to Pennsylvania, to the blue Poconos, where he was born, and we're going to put him into clean dirt...
Representatives of the four powers had sat down for nearly 400 such discussions before. But this was different. Last week, the week in which two-thirds of Germany got its freedom, the four occupying powers in Austria agreed on terms that carried Nazi Germany's first victim to the threshold of the "liberation" promised to it by the wartime Allies twelve years before...
...into one of his state's worst rural problems. Two stray mules suddenly loomed up before his car on the road. "I hit one and turned over," recalled Talmadge. "It killed the mule. I'm just a little bruised." His car was a total wreck. Though his victim was out of the harness for good, Talmadge was soon fitted for one by doctors: X-ray photos showed that he had a cracked...
Ever since a bomb exploded in the big Meier & Frank department store (TIME, April 25), Portland, Ore. has been keyed to a high pitch-somewhere between a laugh and a scream-by fake bomb threats. Last week another bomb exploded in Portland, this time with fatal results. The victim: Oliver Kermit Smith, 35, a prominent lawyer who lived in the highly respectable Alameda district with his wife, Marjorie, 34. After an evening of gin rummy at the Columbia-Edgewater Country Club, he called his wife to say he would be home in 10 minutes; he went...
...fell dead in the street. He had been well known in Singapore as an active anti-Communist student leader. Said the police, as they offered a record reward of 25,000 Straits dollars ($8,333) for finding the two unidentified youths who murdered him: "Lee was the victim of a political outrage typical of the Malayan Communist Party...