Word: victimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Showdown. Colonel Robertson heard ugly whispers about the sources of Colonel Canella's income. He investigated and turned his findings over to the FBI. When Colonel Canella appeared for arraignment, he hotly denied his guilt, called himself a victim of "personal persecution." He also slugged a newspaper photographer and chased him across one of Santa Ana's busiest streets...
...over his head, a telescope at his eye, figuring out his latest ideas in landscape gardening. "I don't propose to do much," Sir George would say casually, "just a sheet of water and a line of statues." He also liked practical jokes, if he was not the victim. Once he arranged a collapsible Chippendale chair for a stout alderman, then accidentally sat on it himself. When Osbert laughed, Sir George reproved him sternly: "I might have most seriously injured my back...
...Snyder attacks several fallacies about murder: that it will out; that a murderer always returns to the scene of his crime; that quicklime will liquidate a body (quicklime tends to preserve it); that surprise or fear may be fixed on a victim's face (death relaxes the muscles); that a bullet in the heart kills instantly (Dr. Snyder tells of a policeman who, after being shot through the heart, fired six shots at his murderer, walked across a street to his car before he died...
Toronto's General Hospital last week reported its 20th death in four years from sulfa poisoning, three within the last month. So aroused were Toronto doctors that the city's chief coroner held a widely publicized inquest on Victim No. 18, to highlight the dangers of using sulfa without proper medical supervision. From Milwaukee came a similar report: 15 sulfa deaths in the county hospitals in three years. Many another U.S. hospital might have added to the death score from sulfa if it had published its files...
Toronto's Victim No. 18 was a young man whose doctor prescribed twelve sulfathiazole tablets for him for a tooth infection last summer. After the first box was used up, the young man bought another dozen, took eight. A few weeks ago he felt ill, thought he had "intestinal flu," took three more sulfa tablets. When he finally went to a doctor, he was vomiting. The doctor said: no more sulfa tablets. But it was too late...