Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...particularly reliable once the disease reaches an advanced stage. In many parts of the world, schistosomiasis is so much an accepted plague of life that the abdominal pain it causes, the blood in the urine and feces, often are disregarded until too late. After years of apparent health, a victim's abdomen may swell as he gradually grows weak and dies, his liver, lungs, urinary tract or even his heart damaged beyond hope from the irritation caused by thousands of parasite eggs...
...number of white people uptown that night (many of them never even left their cars) was closer to 2,000 than 800. And very few of them were angry about anything at all. Most, like Victim Fred Link, were just curious. Negroes who gathered were fewer than...
...fully understood. Through an inborn metabolic quirk, the body produces an excess of porphyrins, chemicals that are usually produced only in tiny amounts and seem somehow to be involved with the body's sensitivity to the sun. In some forms of porphyria, skin sensitivity is slight, but the victim suffers severe abdominal pains, bizarre mental disturbances, and sometimes respiratory paralysis. Mrs. Carlson suffers from a form called porphyria cutaneatarda, in which the porphyrin overproduction can be traced to an inherited liver malfunction. Doctors have studied such cases for years, but have only recently found a strong clue to what...
...thing, he is a weekend victim, compelled by his family to rise and shine even on his days off. A Manhattan department store took full-page newspaper ads to urge that on the one Sunday that was his Day Dad be allowed to sleep late...
They also have style. In the past year one gang has made frequent headlines by knowledgeable thefts of priceless silver from stately homes, whose doughty walls, it seems, scarcely quiver when burglars blast open the pantry safe. One victim, the Marquess of Bristol, learned recently that $56,000 worth of silver pinched from his mansion last February is now in Russia. Another underworld spectacular that fascinated Britons was carried out last year by eight dapper dastards in bowler hats, and dark suits and carrying tightly furled umbrellas, who marched into London airport, grabbed a $175,000 airline payroll, and beat...