Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Air Alone. Another seeming certainty is that no matter how viruses may be involved, cancer is not an infectious disease in the ordinary sense. Nobody catches lung cancer because a victim of the disease coughs in his face. From animals it appears that something like a virus, plus some sort of physical or chemical irritant, may be needed to bring on the disease. Mice do not get lung cancer from polluted air alone, nor from influenza virus. But they may develop something remarkably like human lung cancer if they are both infected with flu virus and exposed...
...parasitize lower forms of life. They have a suggestive clue in diphtheria bacilli. All the microbes of this species can cause infection in man. but only a few have the dread power to manufacture the poison that leads to the formation of a dead ly, strangling membrane across the victim's throat. And this power depends on the microbes' being infected, in their turn, with a tiny particle of nucleic acid-the core of a virus, which has penetrated the bacterial cell. Why should not human cells become cancerous when a similar fragment of viral nucleic acid gets...
Since the Kremlin's sharpest barbs these days are aimed at modern art and "Western espionage," it was just a matter of time before the KGB's cops would turn up a victim whose wrongdoings combined both evils. He turned out to be a Leningrad physics teacher whose taste for abstract painting allegedly led him to join the U.S. spy service...
...Mister Wedgwood Benn, as he insisted on calling himself, ran for re-election from Bristol South-East, and easily won. But the High Court ruled that a peer's male heir, ''lawfully begotten," may not renounce his title. Protesting that he was thus ''the victim of my father's virtue." "the Reluctant Peer'' was forced to stand aside while the defeated Tory candidate occupied his seat in Commons...
...Each year an association of 100 Jewish leaders gladly meets the paper's modest deficit from private investments, and from the profits of WEVD, the foreign language radio station that the group owns. But this can only delay the end, for the Forward is the inevitable victim of its own success. "The Forward hasn't really changed." says Editor Fogelman. "The big change is that the paper has less of that cry of poverty that existed during the great waves of immigration. Now the immigrant has established himself...