Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slayer is made a "constructive trustee," receiving full title to the estate-while the victim's other heirs get all of the actual benefits...
...recently in the Paris daily Le Monde, bases his conclusion on a study of both Roman historical references to crucifixions and reports by Nazi prison-camp survivors who saw the grisly method of killing carried out during World War II. Nailed to the cross by wrists and ankles, the victim, in a desperate struggle for breath, alternately shifted his weight from arms to legs until he slumped down utterly exhausted. With the body weight resting on the arms, the diaphragm could no longer expel carbon dioxide from the lungs, and thus the man died...
Despite his systematic savagery, the slayer either miscounted or forgot the one victim-possibly because he had learned that eight girls lived in the house and did not realize that a ninth, Mary Ann Jordan, was spending the night. "While he was out of the room on one trip," Corazon recounted, "I rolled under the bunk bed clear against the wall. I stayed under the bed for hours and hours." Throughout the terror-filled night she lay frozen with fear, not knowing whether the murderer was still in the house or gone. At 5 a.m., an alarm clock went...
...Baldwin hoped to lift his own popularity by dumping the extremely popular King, the Beaver, who himself was a compulsive intriguer, never quite made clear. His case that Edward was the victim of some sinister plot is weakened because the author makes obvious that he was also using the memoir to carry on a vendetta against some of his own enemies. Besides Baldwin, Beaverbrook was particularly harsh on Geoffrey Dawson, editor of the Times of London, which vigorously opposed the marriage. On a couple of occasions, the editor of Beaverbrook's manuscript, Historian A.J.P. Taylor, drops a footnote...
...part, Douglas is a victim of its own success. The company blames its losses, after a good first quarter, on unexpected cost increases caused by rapid expansion, and an acute shortage of seasoned aircraft workers. The company has not only been forced to undertake expensive training programs but to hire 31,000 employees in six months. Most of all, Douglas has been hit by a slowdown in deliveries of Pratt & Whitney jet engines, diverted to fighter planes bound for Viet Nam. As a consequence, Douglas expects that it will have to delay until next year the completion...