Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...water; a relatively small thrust from a retrorocket can lower their orbit into the atmosphere, where friction provides the additional braking necessary to return them to earth. In the vicinity of the moon, the astronauts might be as long as a three-day journey from home. They could fall victim to minor malfunctions -like a deteriorating oxygen supply-that would not necessarily be fatal in an earth-orbital flight...
...certain foreign sources predicted there would be. I tell you, there will never be a coup in Mali." Last week Keita, 53, was cruising down the Niger River on the presidential yacht, General Soumare. By the time he got back to Bamako, he was out of a job, the victim of a quick and bloodless coup organized by moderate young army officers fed up with Leftist Keita's growing political radicalism and economic failures...
...second one-acter called Witness finds McNally in fine comic and caustic fettle. Again a gagged victim is trussed up in a chair, this time a man. His captor (Joe Ponazecki) hopes to assassinate the President of the U.S. during a motorcade, and he wants a witness to his own sanity in committing the act. The stuff of madness has been crammed into this young would-be assassin's head, principally by avid newspaper reading and televiewing. He knows all about cabinet crises in Lebanon, but he doesn't know right from wrong. He hopes to resolve...
...appearance before Judge Elijah Adlow is a frightening confrontation with irrational authority. He is the man in power, with his army of bailiffs, his pews full of friends. You are the victim, and that is all you can be in this courtroom. He will throw out your constitutional arguments, all the wonderful safeguards you read about in the New York Times. And he will do it bluntly, without care of subtlety: "Let's not descend to this low level of legal discussion. This is a very simple matter...
...American newlyweds honeymooning in Hungary. Of course, their unexpected presence in Poelzig's fantastic Bauhaus mansion (built on the ruins of the most impressive battlefield-graveyard produced by the War) cramps his style--particularly when Poelzig takes a fancy to the young bride and decides to make her the victim in the very next congregation of a devil cult Poelzig heads...