Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They also have a sterling goaltender in Bob O'Connor (second in the east with a 3.17 average and a 6-1-2 record), and that's bad news to Crimson fans who have watched Billy Cleary's boys fall victim to hot netminders in their last two league outings...
...formed a "Friends of Ronald Reagan" committee, begged him to run for Governor. He had to be pushed. Yet in 1966 the former star of Juke Girl snatched the governorship of California by a million votes from incumbent Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, who must have thought he was the victim of an accident. (Reagan also starred in Accidents Will Happen...
...case of child abuse. The youngster had bruises on back and chest, apparently the result of a severe beating. Horrified observers reported the case to authorities, who prosecuted the bewildered Vietnamese refugee parents. But the trial ended soon enough when a physician testified that the child was only the "victim" of an old folk remedy: coin rubbing...
...presidential assassin establishes with his victim a deadly intimacy, follows his movements, attaches himself to his rising star." Historian Christopher Lasch was writing about political assassins, but he might have been describing Mark David Chapman, 25, the accused murderer of John Lennon. Since he was a child, Chapman had attached himself to his hero's star, first as fan, then as imitator, finally as killer. Indeed, it is possible that in some distorted, Dostoyevskian mirror within his mind, he saw himself as Lennon-and the real Lennon as a threatening impostor...
...lived through all the political campaigns," he recalls, "either as a member of the work team..."His voice trails off; he would rather not complete the sentence with the phrase "or as a victim." "I'm not a professional revolutionary," he jokes, "I am a good-for-nothing intellectual...