Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some are best told in a jungular vein and in a series that gradually weakens the victim: Q. Why are elephants gray? A. So you can tell them from blueberries...
...Georgie) entered the cancer field almost by chance. After he fled Hungary's Communist control in 1947, he was able to resume at Woods Hole his long work on muscle. Concentrating on one of the commonest of muscular diseases, myasthenia gravis, he had a clue. Sometimes a victim of "MG" does better after his thymus gland is removed. Searching for the explanation, Szent-Gyorgyi, who has a Cambridge Ph.D. in biochemistry besides his M.D., spent years doing delicate chemical dissections of the thymus glands of calves, supplied by Chicago's Armour & Co. The trail ran out. Szent-Gyorgyi...
...permissive attitude toward undergraduate organizations, therefore, could lead to situations that would discredit the University. In order to prevent the "wrong kind" of person from gaining access to the Halls of Harvard, the School has thus ruled that no one can enter. The Socialist Club is just an incidental victim of a broad rule insuring a lack of opportunity for everyone...
...treaty is also valuable because it deals with a threat to individuals rather than masses of peoples. The President was powerfully persuasive in noting that while the statistical effects of testing are negligible, lukemia or genetic mutation cannot fail to be significant to the victim. Further, the treaty has importance as a first step towards permanently limiting the nuclear club Wide dispersion of nuclear weapons could quickly lead to a world disaster of inconceivable horror; only a growing system of control agreements among the current nuclear powers can prevent such a catastrophe...
...official residence seemed an odd place for tents. But there they were last week, 25 of them, decked with flags and swarming with excited men who periodically would rush out to surround a cringing dignitary as he emerged through Ikeda's front door. Shoving, pushing, often pummeling its victim into speechlessness, the throng would shout at the man for a few minutes, then, its business done, make an equally frantic rush back for the tents. Was it a circus or a riot? Not quite either. It was the Tokyo press corps covering a Cabinet shakeup...