Word: victimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the heating elements used were four "very good-looking, clean, young" gypsy girls from Ravenbrück prison camp. Stripped naked, they were wrapped in the same blankets with the moribund victim. Goring's plan - if their warmth proved therapeutic - was to outfit Nazi rescue vessels with similar warming units...
...single naked gypsy girl, the solemn report stated, proved more effective than two in raising the chilled victim's temperature...
Stella keeps the plot alive as long as it allows her to live. But her naturally high voltage and low taste in friends apparently mark her from the beginning as the victim of a crime of passion. When she is rubbed out, tedium sets in. The scene finally gets so crowded with suspicious-looking people that by the time the villain is led away to jail you have the feeling that far too many untrustworthy characters are still lurking about on the wrong side of the bars...
Principal victim of Tristan's and Iseult's love and cunning is Cornwall's noble (and mythical) King Mark. Tristan, Mark's favorite nephew, goes to Ireland to bring back golden-haired Iseult to be his uncle's bride. On shipboard, Tristan and Iseult accidentally drink a love-philtre. Cries Iseult's horrified maidservant: "Friend Tristan, Iseult my friend . . . you have drunk not love alone, but love and death together." But "the lovers held each other . . . and Tristan said, 'Well, then, come Death...
...first-year team the Cadets are coming here with a pretty fair record. Reasselaer Polytech, Ursinus, Lafayette, and Boston College have already fallen victim, with only Maryland having been able to take their measure. And this is their first year of varsity football...