Word: victimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Female ticks are deadlier than males. They gorge themselves to the bursting point (five or six times normal size) and, if disease carriers, are just as dangerous to the tick picker who pops them as to the victim whose blood they suck. The male is flatter, smaller, less greedy. When he is sated, he noses around the host until he finds a feeding female, mates with her on the spot, moves away to start all over again. When the female is completely engorged, she drops off, finds herself a cranny to lay her eggs in (5,000 at a time...
Other headlines caused only a stir. California had its eighth sex murder since the unsolved Black Dahlia killing. Manhattan's East Side had three Prohibition-style street-shootings in two days, and one victim spoke in a manner worthy of radio's "Gangbusters" before cashing in his chips. When the hated cops asked him his name, he said: "Joe Bananas, the second." When they asked who had done the foul deed, he responded: "Me mother...
...lost their heads. No one thought to shut the water-tight doors. Slowly, water welled into the Shinano. Six hours later, her Japanese skipper tucked a portrait of Emperor Hirohito under his arm, scrambled over the side and left the biggest carrier ever built to sink ignominiously, the victim of one torpedo...
Writer's cramp is an ailment that has puzzled doctors for more than a century, and it continues to baffle them. The victim of writer's cramp is seized by a strange kind of palsy. He may be able to play the piano or balance a teacup, but as soon as he tries to write, his fingers begin to stutter. Some doctors think that the cramp is an occupational disease brought on by too much writing. They prescribe 1) a long rest from writing, or 2) a change of occupation...
Flashes of Light. With oxygen poisoning, the victim grows pale, feels as if he were choking, has attacks of nausea, is alternately exhilarated or depressed, has hallucinations (flashes of light, halos around everything, sounds as of bells and knocking). Finally his lips begin to twitch violently (the most common symptom); he goes into convulsions and falls unconscious. The final symptoms are much like those of an epileptic fit. But the victim quickly revives on breathing fresh air and, except for an oxygen jag lasting about an hour, shows no bad aftereffects...