Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gromyko, there could be no greater sin than a casual approach to one's duties. His reputation had earned him the nickname Grom, the Russian word for thunder. One victim of his thunderbolts was Rolland Timerbayev, a senior political officer in the U.N. mission, who had the thankless task of supervising the mission's move from Park Avenue to East 67th Street. When Gromyko was shown the completed work that autumn, he spent more than half an hour stuck between floors in a faulty elevator. Finally freed, he decided that Timerbayev should have a new career...
...proceeding cautiously, however. In the absence of any long-term studies, it has limited daily use of the capsules to six months and has warned against their use during pregnancy. Also, the agency noted, use of the capsules does not guarantee that a herpes victim will not infect a sexual partner...
...Chrostowski. In his concluding remarks the following day, Edward Wende, the slain priest's longtime attorney, who is representing Popieluszko's brother and the driver, struck back. "I did not think," he said, "that I would be forced to take the stand in the role of defender of the victim. Such a statement by the public prosecutor, which would equate the victim with the hangman without any reason for it, is probably unknown in any court records...
...bottle of prune juice. The items suggest that the lieutenant is no oenophile, dislikes cooking and suffers from constipation. More important, a grocery list is Leonard's shorthand way of establishing his hero's endearing authenticity as a middle-aged widower who, despite badge and gun, falls victim to street crime...
Rosalind Ragans can still remember the contagion ward in a New York City hospital where she spent three months as a victim of the 1944 polio epidemic. Of the nearly 600,000 Americans who were infected by the poliomyelitis virus in this century before the development of vaccines for the disease in the 1950s, about 10% died, while many of the survivors, like Ragans, suffered some degree of paralysis. Stricken at age eleven, she was at first confined to a wheelchair, but gradually recovered enough to lead a normal life. Her slight difficulty in walking and partly paralyzed right...