Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year progression through intern, resident, and assistant in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. There, in 1942, he was one of the surgeons who treated survivors of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire. That holocaust, in which 500 died, emphasized surgery's need to know far more about a burn victim than the state of his skin grafts-to know what is happening to his emotions and to a dozen of his body chemicals...
...trying to examine the cruiser's hull. Yet the state visit continued and official relations remained unruffled because London followed the code by calmly disowning the dead frogman. The rule here, says Author Felix, is that "a covert operation's patent hostility can be ignored by the victim who uncovers it only if he receives the cooperation of the author of the act." Hence Khrushchev's discomfiture after the U-2 incident when he told newsmen he was certain that President Eisenhower had no personal knowledge of the U-2 overnights of Russia-only to have Eisenhower...
...much commentary on the political environment in which he found himself, as upon the individual." The Eisenhower ordeal has left Hughes much more impressed with the stupidity and viciousness of this country's "political environment" than depressed at Eisenhower's problematical missed opportunities. More precisely, Hughes considers Eisenhower a victim of that environment, rather than of either his personal failings or those of his immediate associates...
...Branson was visibly tired, although he continued his phenomenal strickout string. (He whiffed 12 during the game.) After getting the first two men in the eighth, he walked Combs and Tom Bilodeau and hit Terry Bartolet with a pitch. Tom Stephenson, a strikeout victim on three previous occasions, came through with a single to score two runs. Pinch hitter Gary Miller walked, and when Bartolet scored on a wild pitch, Branson left the game...
...flashback it appears that Alex, the boxer, killed an opponent in the ring. But later it turns out that his victim may have been a prostitute who humiliated him or a homosexual whom he feared...