Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Assembly. Before him were the diplomats who had elected him, a motley crowd of delegates from every corner of the world. "It is hard for me to express the great grief I experience," said President Slim, speaking in French. "The Secretary-General of the United Nations fell a victim to his duty. He died, one might say, on the battlefield of peace...
...Siberia was synonymous with space, silence, emptiness and snowbound darkness for 20 hours of every winter's day. The grim land was said to unhinge men's minds: bored Czarist officers in isolated forts broke the monotony by playing Russian roulette. Settlers in the barren north fell victim to "arctic hysteria...
That night, getting desperate, Don Juan sneaks into his victim's bedroom. All at once, even before he makes a pass, she gives in. "You can do what you like with me." she says quietly. "I can't endure your suffering. I beg you to free me from your suffering." Victory on these terms is more humiliating than defeat. Doesn't she love him. even a little? "No." Suddenly he begins to understand that, on the contrary, it is he who loves her; that for the first time in life or death he is in love...
...Crisis Victim. The military tribunal at Kiev sentenced Marvin Makinen to eight years' detention-just two years less than the punishment dished out to Francis Gary Powers for flying his U-2 thousands of miles into Soviet hinterland. In all probability, Makinen was a victim of the Berlin crisis. He came from West Berlin, just at the moment the Russians were charging that it was a center for imperialist plotters. Crowed Izvestia: "It becomes still clearer that the government of East Germany acted just in time in closing loopholes for all kinds of filth which tried to penetrate...
...state ever since. The conqueror styled himself Shih Huang-ti, the First Emperor -an appellation that required him to destroy the palaces, monuments and records of all previous emperors. The wholesale destruction had an ironically tonic effect. The Chinese had, as they were always prone to do, fallen victim of their own achievements, and art had become mere imitation of the past. Now, suddenly, much of the past was gone, and the artists could begin anew...