Word: victimize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...efforts to establish precedents can be frustrated, for targets of test cases will sometimes offer generous out-of-court settlements to avoid an adverse--and publicized--court ruling. They can then continue their practices, hoping only that their next victim does not go to CLAO...
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). In Anastasia, Lynn Fontanne, Julie Harris, Robert Burr and Paul Roebling dramatize the still unanswered question of whether a young amnesia victim was really the daughter of Russia's Czar Nicholas II, executed by the Bolsheviks...
Despite his differences with Manchester, Roberts' main mission in Truth is to debunk the tomes purporting to prove-contrary to the Warren Commission findings-that J.F.K. was the victim of a conspiracy. On this question, Manchester and Roberts are in accord. Lincoln's body was disinterred four times, and Roberts speculates that the widespread doubts about the assassination raised by the conspiracy mongers may in time lead to demands that John Kennedy's remains also be unearthed...
...there is any victim in grantsmanship, it is not the Government or the foundations but the undergraduate student. To the professor tied up in the pursuit of research funds, teaching may seem like an unpleasant interruption in his real career. One U.C.L.A. physicist, for example, contends that "a professor who gets three or four men through to their Ph.D. via research is achieving far more than he can by lecturing to a hundred freshmen all year." The nation's 1.5 million freshmen are not likely to agree-until they, too, some day need a grant...
...year-old woman was a victim of a "brittle" and "malignant" form of diabetes that develops in early life and eventually damages nearly all the body's arteries, including those supplying the kidneys. In this case, the patient's kidneys had already failed, and she was being kept alive by dialysis. Her pancreas was functioning poorly. The doctors were equally concerned about the working of her duodenum, a source of little-understood hormones...