Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lewis persuaded a friend, one Kathy Harwell, 26, a divorcee and the mother of two, to stay in his house and play the part of the tarred-and-feathered "victim" of segregationist hoodlums. And so, one night last week, Robert and Eva Lewis stripped Kathy Harwell to the waist (she insisted on keeping on her bra), sopped her in tar, sprinkled on the feathers, and bound her arms. They then headed for the county sheriff's office to report another minor incident-and to give themselves an alibi. To make things even more realistic, another young female friend...
...Catholic missionaries and in 1946 ordained a priest. Later, in defiance of orders from his superior, Youlou ran for the French Assembly (he lost) and was suspended by the church, is still forbidden to say Mass. Because of his suspension, he was acclaimed by his countrymen as a victim of discrimination and elected mayor of Brazzaville in 1956. Exploiting Congolese superstitions, he soon had many voters convinced that his personal fetish, a small yellow crocodile, had "the power." With the advent of independence, Youlou was elected Premier and President, promising his new nation "tomorrows that sing...
...these skits, John Williams turns to advantage the tenseness which marred his other performances this summer. As a victim of jealousy, he brings to the Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams parodies an aggressiveness which is a pleasant relief from the fops who cavorted through the impotent summer session on the main stage...
...horse-drawn buggies in town, the doctor did most of his business in the patients' of his home. In an in era the of sprawling suburbs, when patients and doctors alike travel everywhere in autos, every car is a potential ambulance, ready to rush the victim of a real accident or a simple case of bellyache to the nearest emergency room...
...intern on duty is a foreign-born doctor whose language difficulties become almost insurmountable for the patient or his overwrought family. And the emergency room's new popularity is likely to cram it with cases of infectious disease-which is hardly to be desired for the accident victim brought in with an open wound. It is an unhappy situation for patients, doctors and hospitals...