Word: victimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wondering whether he was once again a victim of the unpredictable vagaries of Soviet censorship, we cabled him as follows...
...centers of publication of all major organs of fact, opinion and fiction are located outside of the South. . . . Many literate Southerners believe the South a victim of a literary and journalistic conspiracy. . . . Some of the resentment is reasonable...
Then the "dead" father turns up, the mere bandaged victim of a whack on the head; and Christy sinks from a hero to a butt. To regain his stature, he tries to murder his "da" all over again; but to Pegeen, a dirty squabble in her own backyard is something quite unlike derring-do at a distance. She scorns to marry Christy; and he, now bossing his father as fiercely as his father once bossed him, sets off with the old man, from Ireland's "Western World," for home...
...dropped out of sight, but that he saw neither of his parents. Malloy, however, said he had held a brief telephone conversation with him at that time regarding the new house his family is building. "He sounded normal to me," said the chief, "not at all like the amnesia victim that West's medical record might indicate...
Cyanide suffocates. It stops oxygen consumption by body tissues. It is hot and bitter when swallowed, produces nausea and a splitting headache. The throat tightens, and the victim gasps for breath, reels, stares wildly without seeing, is seized by convulsions, and falls unconscious. Then, like an expiring balloon, his laboring lungs and heart slowly collapse. Over all hangs the faint odor of bitter almonds...