Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Eisenhower's plea for creation of 40 new judgeships died in Congress-a victim of the same partisanship that had buried earlier Administration requests for additional judgeships. Democrats did not want to establish posts to be filled by a Republican President. In the interest of getting a bill enacted, Ike offered to split the new appointments evenly between the two parties, but still the Democrats stalled. Democratic leaders de cided to bet that the next President would be a Democrat, and that their party would then get a lot more than 50% of the new judgeships...
...Victim. And there was no sign that the U.S. would be recognized as fighting the people's cause. Of Laos' 2,000,000 inhabitants, only about half are ethnic Lao, who inhabit the fertile river valleys and the seats of government. But the tribal groups in the hills and remote jungle have never knuckled under to any central government. The Kha of the south still offer up human sacrifices at their marriage feasts, traditionally choosing as victim the grandfather of the bride...
Many doctors do not tell, arguing that the cancer victim usually realizes his condition anyhow but will not emotionally welcome scientific confirmation. Fortnight ago, in Cancer, an official publication of the American Cancer Society, a Swedish team composed of a psychiatrist, a surgeon and a social worker offered statistical evidence to support the conclusion that telling the patient the truth "need by no means be an overwhelming shock, and may even be of positive value to the patient during the further course of the disease...
...seven years, taken to church, blessed, and reburied with full rites. And among the Azande, a Congo tribe, graves are opened for less innocent purposes. Tribesmen are apparently subject to dreams in which the dead demand a human sacrifice, and when the tribal oracle approves such a dream, a victim is found, his legs are broken, and he is buried alive...
...demanded all of Nina's valuables, and her terrified mother handed over a bag containing some 250,000 rubles in cash and government bonds. Fur-Cutter Aleksei Aleksandrov caved in at the sight of the dreaded secret police and surrendered 300,000 rubles in money and furs. One victim, finally, put in a timid call to the authorities, to ask if the night visitors were really official. Last week the "secret policemen" who had spread a little incidental terror from Moscow and Leningrad to Kharkov and Stalino were exposed as a gang of criminals and con men headed...