Word: victimize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, a group decides to kill the host and offer him as a sacrificial victim to the gods. Then, swiftly as it arrived, the mysterious ban is lifted. Joyously the prisoners pour out the door and blink at the unfamiliar sun. Days later, to commemorate their escape, the survivors reassemble to celebrate a solemn Te Deum Mass in gratitude for their rescue. As the ritual ends, they head for the church doors-and find that suddenly they are unable to leave...
...resemblance ends there. With a range of from 12 ft. to 15 ft., the Mace's chemical stream (a tear-gas concentrate called phenylchloromethylketone) affects nerve ends and produces an instant shock and a choking sensation that incapacitate its victim as effectively as a blow on the head or a hand on the throat. Yet the chemical wears off after about 30 minutes, leaving no lasting aftereffects. In New Haven, Police Chief Francis McManus found it "highly effective" in quelling the mob. The Mace has also been use ful in everyday police work. In the year it has been...
...that a daughter may be infected, but can't hide something like jubilance if it's a son-the attitude of 'I didn't know Junior had it in him.' " This same nurse found a middle-class suburban girl in her teens, a gonorrhea victim, who gave her the names of 14 different contacts she had had in the previous three months...
...want to protect her-and women don't mind it," says one director. For one thing, Sandy is a natural victim. Sturdy chairs collapse when she sits on them; hurtling taxis somehow spray mud just on her. Yet, despite her seeming fragility, she could hardly be tougher as an actress and a woman. And though she is not exactly a sex symbol, "sex," as the same director says, "is completely associable with her. If a guy had to make a pass at Sandy Dennis, he wouldn't panic...
...would have particularly welcomed the news from Rome died in New York City last week. Victim of a heart attack was the Rev. John Courtney Murray, 62, the Jesuit theologian whose influence and immense prestige extended far beyond the boundaries of his faith and order. Secular leaders met under his guidance. Protestants welcomed him to their councils; the Episcopal Committee on Theological Freedom and Social Responsibilities listed him as one of its advisers. Internation al Catholicism recognized his intellectual leadership at the Second Vatican Council, despite efforts of the ultra-conservative Vatican Curia to suppress his liberal views on religious...