Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...furs and jewelry from Gold Coast apartments. The robbers said that they operated with impunity-before the FBI caught them and got them sent to Joliet-by paying $20,000 a year to detectives on the city burglary squad. One dapper thief, spotted by a victim, was arrested and put through police lineup, but escaped identification because a friendly ($1,000) Chicago cop disguised him in a new hairdo and horn-rimmed glasses...
...first political experience-when he was a boy of five in his home town in the German Saarland-Regler recalls watching a policeman drag the local tailor by the ear up the town hall steps to face judgment for some obscure misdeed. From that moment on, compassion for any victim whose ears were twisted by authority animated Gustav Regler-but also led him to join political forces that knew no compassion...
...Milan's Corriere della Sera; "A horrible tale," said Turin's La Stampa). Next day Milazzo resigned. His Communist allies for the most part maintained stunned silence, but to Rome's pro-Communist Paese Sera, it was all very simple. Milazzo, declared Paese Sera, was the victim of a Mafia plot...
...exorcise evil spirits. Mandaean demons are bad enough, but Moslem or Christian ones are worse. If after an exorcism, an evil spirit departs on time he is known for a Mandaean-but if he hangs on after the limit, he is probably Moslem or Christian, and the possessed victim is in for a rough time...
...quirks of mind and the twists of fate that led to the crisis. The surface answer to this whydunit is that the young wife had an insatiable appetite for men, and that her husband killed her in cold, obsessional jealousy. But it is finally clear that the victim whom Robert Millhouser really loathed and destroyed was Robert Millhouser himself...