Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beaten to Death. Continues the report: "Brazier's ten-year-old son pleaded with the officers to stop beating his father and was knocked to the ground by 'Y'; the victim was thrown onto the floor of the police car with his legs dangling outside. 'Y' kicked him twice in the groin, slammed the car door on his legs, threw a hat full of sand into his bloody face, and drove off." Brazier died five days later, and "Y" was never punished...
When a human victim of viral infection gets a stuffy head and a sore throat, or suffers a splitting headache and the feeling that his bones are breaking, or develops the blisters of cold sores or the rash of measles, his body is reacting to the biochemical disturbances that come from invasion by viruses. Viruses kill millions of people around the world every year, and give the miseries to hundreds of millions more...
...animals, including man, the system fights back by making antibodies that gang up on a virus particle, surround it and neutralize it. Unhappily, it takes days or weeks for the body to mobilize its antibody police, so the first viral invasion is likely to succeed and make the invaded victim sick, or may even kill him. But if the body survives such an invasion, it learns to remobilize its defenses quickly, like emergency police, whenever it recognizes an old viral enemy or one wearing a similar protein overcoat...
...laboratories there has come no drug that will selectively attack viruses while sparing the cells in which they seek sanctuary. But nature suggests that there is a way. If it takes days or weeks for protective antibodies to develop, why does not the pullulating virus overwhelm all the victim's susceptible cells in the meantime? London's Dr. Alick Isaacs last year found a partial answer. Virus-infected cells produce a substance that Isaacs calls interferon, which spreads to neighboring, uninfected cells. With their interferon guard up, these cells are unusually resistant to viral invasion...
Goalie John Adams was the victim of the miserable playing conditions on both Wesleyan tallies. On the first period score, the wet ball squirted out of his arms into the goal...