Word: victimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprised Jap manned his shore batteries and his shipboard antiaircraft. Only one fighter rose to intercept. Desperately it flung down on one of the big American bombers, locked wings and fell from the sky, bringing its victim with it. That was the only American loss. The planes returned to their Australian base, having successfully completed the second longest air raid for land-based bombers in the Pacific War-1,000 miles...
...used our grenades. Their chests and stomachs were both gone. Our grenades, which probably accounted for half the Japs we killed on Attu, carry a much more powerful charge. The Jap grenade is vastly inferior. Some Jap bodies were found beside three or four duds, indicating that the victim had had an exasperating time killing himself...
...Leningrad, many another treasure house of civilization. Yet fantastic Dr. Joseph Goebbels bleated last week : " The Americans destroy towns of the European Continent with their cultural institutions, of which there are no equals in Chicago or San Francisco. What they cannot buy of European art and culture shall become victim of their terror bomb ers They talk of culture and humanity, but we possess them and are today their guardians and defenders...
...bridegroom learned that . . . the woman who bore his name was, through some physical misfortune, incapable of being a wife. . . . Whether Charlotte or her aunts knew of her unfortunate condition before the marriage cannot be determined; but Griswold believed that they were aware of it, and he considered himself the victim of a vicious trick. He believed that these women deliberately set out to catch a husband for Charlotte in order to signify to the world that she was a normal woman." Griswold left one daughter with her in Charleston, returned to New York. He remained legally married...
...Congress, the old feud between the President and his legislative branch had flared into the kind of revolt that had sapped the nation's strength in two previous great wars. There Information Director Elmer Davis was a chief victim...