Word: victimize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People who suffer from the sudden, sharp chest pains called angina pectoris usually carry nitroglycerin pills or amyl nitrite for quick, dramatic relief. The frightening spasms commonly occur in long-standing heart disease patients when they exercise or are exposed to cold weather. But what is the victim to do if the pain strikes and he has forgotten his pill? A report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine suggests an effective emergency treatment: when an attack takes place, hold the nose, close the mouth and blow...
...Most victims paid, surrendering anywhere from $500 to $50,000, depending on what the extortioners had the temerity to ask. One wealthy Midwestern schoolteacher coughed up $120,000 over a four-year period. For those who would not pay, the gang was quite ready to carry out its threat of exposure. The marriage of one victim who refused to be intimidated was wrecked when the gang informed his wife; an Army officer committed suicide rather than submit to pressure. One alleged shakeman awaiting trial, a former Chicago detective, had authentic Chicago police badges, arrest warrants, and even extradition papers...
...sons). Born in New York City of immigrant parents, he worked his way through college (Niagara University) and law school as a lifeguard and merchant seaman. As a lawyer, he got some national attention for his conscientious - and ultimately successful - defense of Christopher Balestrero, a musician who was the victim of a mistaken-identity arrest...
...Viet Nam on the U.S. Navy hospital ship Repose, a 16-year-old Vietnamese girl named Phan Thi Truong, a victim of rheumatic fever damage, rested easily after delicate surgery during which a new portable heart-lung machine was used for the first time...
...week's end New Orleans authorities had located the rape victim and one of the key witnesses in the case. Louisiana Attorney General Jim Gremillion denounced the Court of Appeals decision as "horrible" and added: "It looks like the court wants to give them [Labat and Poret] a medal for staying in prison." Gremillion will appeal for a rehearing; if that fails, he will go to the U.S. Supreme Court...