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Word: victimes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explained his visit to one victim: "Her daughter was pretty." When the prosecution insisted that, on the contrary, she was "of extreme homeliness," Petiot demanded that a photograph be brought to court to support his taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Long Shot | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

Last week, he finally took a decisive step to better himself. He did not quite manage the farm in Essex, but he became the licensee of a pub in Oldham, Lancashire. "Yungg Alber" was a man of feeling; like his uncle, he always took pride in making his victim's grim death throes as light and brief as possible. His new pub had an appropriate name. It was called: "Help the Poor Struggler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Pierrepoinfs' Profession | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...yeah? Where's that you're going to school?" asked the cop, getting closer and sniffing suspiciously. The victim replied. "Repeat that!" he demanded, cocking his nose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Wee Little Whiff Tells Harvard Man A Mile Away | 3/15/1946 | See Source »

Sirs: Lichfield prison [TIME, Dec. 31] is more proof that the Army is badly in need of ... an Inspector General's Department interested in uncovering facts. It has been our experience that when the I.G. plans a visit, he warns the victim ahead of time to have all the dirt under the carpet. . . . [SERVICEMEN'S NAMES WITHHELD] New Delhi, India

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 11, 1946 | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...Trib, whose Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick acquired some of his imperfectly assimilated education in the British public schools, answered in an editorial that Mr. White was the victim of "inspired propaganda," probably emanating from the British Foreign Office. Added the Trib: "Calling us names . . . has made us the best known newspaper in the world. We have succeeded the Times of London in that respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Modesty | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

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