Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real estate man, lay on the living-room floor of her Dutch-colonial home in Belmont, a well-to-do Boston suburb. Around her neck was a nylon stocking that had been stripped from her left leg. She was dead. Headlined the Boston Herald: HOUSEWIFE TENTH STRANGLE VICTIM...
...spinal or brain disease appears, especially in springtime, in an unpredictable pattern. Only one other man in Wilkowski's company got meningitis, but so did three others in companies widely scattered over the huge base. And one of these, James S. Hale, 22, of Osborne, Kans., fell victim to a furiously progressive form of the disease, reminiscent of the old-fashioned epidemics. It was 5:30 p.m. when Hale went to sick bay, and after a spinal tap he was rushed to the hospital. But within four hours he was dead. The other victims, including Wilkowski, were recovering...
Rover. A stocky stranger, wearing a grey hat, a light raincoat and red gloves, opened the rear door and inquired. "Etes-vous Monsieur Lafond?" At Lafond's nod, he pumped two bullets into his victim's abdomen. then shot the chauffeur for good measure...
...objects at one another, the U.S. House of Representatives has a strict rule against any Congressman's uttering personal criticism of another. But last week the House sat silently while a young Republican bitterly denounced a Democratic committee chairman-and, in the process, scolded the House itself. The victim of the attack was Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell Jr., chairman of the Education and Labor Committee (as usual, Powell was absent at the time). The attacker: second-termer John Milan Ashbrook, 34, attorney, Johnstown, Ohio, newspaper publisher and former national chairman of the Young Republican National Federation...
...with about 250,000 cases reported annually and an estimated 1,250,000 unreported. It is much more highly contagious than syphilis, and easier to catch from a single indiscretion. The infection, even when effectively cured, confers no immunity. Repeated infections are the rule. The same victim can catch the dis ease again a few days after being cured -and often does...