Word: victimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Various drugs (mostly those which constrict the blood vessels) might help even serious cases. But when the victim tries to breathe the drugs into his lungs as fine mist through a "nebulizer," they do not penetrate deep enough. Struggle as he will, the stiffened sacs remain full of stale air and of carbon dioxide from the blood...
...Catholic parochial system. In his first sentence he called the school "the full embodiment of the great and generous spirit that is America." Then he praised the prelate for whom he had named it, Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac* of Yugoslavia, railroaded to jail by Tito in 1946, as "the victim of godless Communism and a martyr to the ideals that Americans revere and cherish. He is the symbol of Peter and Paul and all the apostles and martyrs ... He also reincarnates the symbol of the fathers and mothers of America-whose thoughts, powers, sacrifices and achievements in the building of this...
...partisan crowd from his consciousness. ("It was like a bullfight. I was the bull") But Parker couldn't handle Pancho's powerful but erratic serve or his incessant volleying attack. With a happy grin on his handsome scarface, the big (6 ft. 2 in.) Gonzales offered his victim to the crowd...
...Hentig contends that certain characteristics of law-abiding citizens arouse a counterreaction in the criminal. The inexperienced businessman, for example, invites embezzlement; the nagging wife is flirting with murder; the alcoholic is a natural for robbery. Thus the victim becomes the "tempter...
Since society does not yet recognize the close relationship between criminal and victim, Dr. von Hentig says, the whole machinery of prisons, parole boards and probation is drastically out of date. Until a new theory of crime prevention is adopted, he believes that victims will go on being a self-perpetuating group, as dangerous to society as criminals...