Word: victimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty generally was agreed by those on hand who'd seen executions that the victims usually are nervy. And then Tom told about the "nerviest" victim he's seen...
Ending there, with Lachlen the victim of life's blundering blows and his own prickly nature, The Hasty Heart would have ended movingly. Instead it ends sentimentally, with Lachlen thawing out all over again. But the play really clips its own wings much earlier, by making Lachlen a burlesque Scotsman as well as a burdened mortal, and by putting "touching" scenes above truthful ones...
...were disclosed; Navy Secretary Forrestal regretted that the submarine fleet must remain the Navy's silent service. Silent or not, it had run its toll of sinkings to 99 Jap combat ships and 835 tankers, transports and auxiliaries. The cost: 34 U.S. submarines lost from all causes. Latest victim was the Seawolf, with a brilliant record dating back to the Java campaign...
...people do," will have a chance to prove it in the future. For Cleveland's Dr. Lorand Julius Bela Gluzek has rigged up an efficient little machine called a dolorimeter, which measures pain in grams. It would have made the Marquis de Sade very happy. Just put the victim's leg on the leg rest, put the pressure inductor on his shin bone and pump up the pressure until it hurts. That indicates the threshold at which pain begins (and the victim-however Spartan-is supposed to yell). The threshold varies from 500 (for the Gummidge type...
...town council at Cuenca. Alfonso Pena Jaramillo attacked President José Maria Velasco Ibarra, was promptly jailed for showing "disrespect." Just as promptly, the President came to the rescue. Wired President Velasco to Critic Jaramillo: "You have perfect freedom to think, criticize and censure. You have been the victim of an abuse of which I protest as the President of a liberal country...