Word: victimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after five bustling years in the Justice Department, Norman Littell had a rare Washington experience. Franklin Roosevelt fired him.* The reason: "insubordination." Said ex-Assistant Attorney General Littell: "I am a victim of the Ickes-Corcoran-Biddle axis. . . . The Commander in Chief ... is completely absorbed in the war. He cannot be supposed to know all that is going on in the Government departments." Lawyer Littell's version of what has been going on in the Justice Department...
...Announcer Edwards never does. Since he thought up the show in 1940, he has made participants ride camels, wash elephants, woo seals, wiggle into girdles onstage. Only victim to renege on a "consequence" was a rabid Brooklyn fan who couldn't bring himself to make a speech vilifying the Dodgers...
...begin to seem queer to her too. In the most promising stretch of the picture, as she flinches in terror of groaning shutters and sudden extinctions of the lights, or follows the beckoning of inchoate voices into the swamp, it is as impossible for the audience as for the victim to know what is plain fact, what is the hallucination of a crumbling mind, who if anybody is to be trusted...
...police headquarters Otto Wilson first politely denied, then politely confessed his crimes. In his cell, red-eyed, unsteady, but calm, he kept his black hair neatly combed. It was impossible to guess what he was thinking. Outside, his first victim's husband cried to police: "Leave me alone with that guy for five minutes and I'll save the state a lot of money...
...Government offered a subsidy of $2.50 a cord to anyone who would work in the forests. In eastern cities and suburbs, where householders use fireplaces for supplementary heat, wood was scarce and expensive. And householders whose trees were blown down in last month's hurricane were the victims of a new racket: for a high hourly fee, the snooty racketeers would deign to cut up the trees blocking the driveways. Then, for a bargain price, the victim was allowed to buy back his own wood-green and noninflammable until next winter...