Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victim was Marjorie Winifred Bird, a rich, neurotic American widow who hoped that the U.S. would one day be come a monarchy so that she could be its queen. The accused were Nicolas Sturdza, a penniless Rumanian homo sexual who styled himself prince and claimed that he was descended from the Moldavian kings, and Dr. Gérard Sa voy, a shady Lausanne psychiatrist who specialized in wealthy female patients and who, over the course of 18 months, prescribed for Mrs. Bird 18,970 barbiturate pills. Last week, in a Lausanne courtroom, the doctor was found guilty of murdering...
...Christian Advocate, official biweekly of the Methodist Church, responded by charging that Johnson was "the victim of some faulty theological advice," and called the notion of putting up a memorial to God a "semantic blunder" because it "speaks of God in the past tense." Christianity Today, a conservative Protestant biweekly, said that while it would welcome "a recognition of the historical Christian roots of the nation," the idea of a monument to a generalized God should be dropped...
...KIDNAPING: So broadly worded is the New York law, that a robber who compels a victim to move from one room to another can be charged with kidnaping; so can a parent in a broken family who takes a child from its authorized custodian. In the revised code, the crime Would not be kidnaping unless it involved "holding for ransom or some other purpose usually associated with kidnaping...
...cross-examined till they were crosseyed. At the last minute, Belli put in a rush call to Chicago, persuaded Neurologist Frederic A. Gibbs-who had been reluctant to testify-to fly immediately to Dallas to help the defense. Gibbs got on the stand and said that Ruby was a victim of psychomotor variant epilepsy, characterized by "lack of emotional control-impulsive and obsessive types of behavior...
...loot, can best be described as a pit viper fallen among king cobras. Honey Flood, as she calls herself, tries to put the permanent bite on a fat-cat Englishman by killing him to get his money, but discovers much to her surprise that she would rather have her victim in bed than dead...