Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McCurdy always helped keep things in perspective." Ezeji-Okoye said. "Almost everyone has been the victim of the McCurdy put-down...
THERE is an attempt to create a sub-plot but only an attempt. A senior police officer violently kills an innocent child during the hostility of the initial drug raid. To avoid dismissal from the force he plants a gun in the hand of his prone victim but his cover-up is witnessed by a rookie. As vet unaccepted by his peers the rookie goes along with the cover story but later struggles with his conscience...
Like eighteenth century English history, the literature of the century has also been the victim of inattention. Pope and Johnson are undeniable presences, but others are sometimes lost in between the glitter of the Elizabethans and Milton and the later Romantics and Victorians. Yet there were many intelligent literary minds at this time, and they produced writing that is well worth our attention...
After serving six years for kidnaping and rape, Gary Dotson, 28, seemed suddenly to be a technicality away from freedom when Cathleen Crowell Webb, his alleged victim, came forward to confess that she had made up the story. But last week, after listening to Webb recant her testimony in a Cook County court, Judge Richard Samuels upheld the original jury verdict and ordered Dotson returned to prison. As a stunned Dotson was taken away once more, Webb sobbed, "He's wrong! Gary Dotson is innocent...
...common symbolic gesture, such as delivering an A- O.K. sign (thumb to forefinger, making a circle) from below the waist instead of above it, or producing a one-shoulder shrug. "A liar can show these leakage emblems again and again," Ekman writes, "and usually neither the liar nor the victim will notice them." Another finding: the use of gestures to illustrate speech, stabbing the air or making a circle in space, often falls off dramatically when a person is lying. (Lie spotters, however, should make an adjustment for speakers who seem tired or bored or rarely use gestures...