Word: victimize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Providence goalie Mario Proulx left the rink a loser, the victim of Grant Blair's fourth collegiate shutout...
...Lieut. General Moshe Levy blamed Palestinian fighters for the attacks. But the gunmen might also have been local Shi'ites, whose poor relations with the Israeli occupiers have steadily worsened since September, when Jerusalem redeployed its troops 17 miles south of Beirut. Since then, 39 Israelis have fallen victim to violence in southern Lebanon. Several weeks ago, the Israelis talked about pulling back ten to 15 more miles, to the Zahrani River, but U.S. officials persuaded them to delay the move at Lebanese President Amin Gemayel's request. Nonetheless, over the weekend the Israelis...
...celebrated life-and-death legal struggles intensified on both coasts over the Christmas holidays. In New York, the severely handicapped Baby Jane Doe, now almost three months old, became the subject of a third lawsuit intended to prolong her life. In California, Cerebral Palsy Victim Elizabeth Bouvia was denied the right to starve herself to death in a Riverside hospital and was force-fed despite her bitter resistance...
...decade ago, the legal doctrine of contributory negligence might have barred such a suit because damages usually were not awarded if the victim was to blame in any way. The new rules, known as comparative negligence, allow a jury to assess the percentage of fault on each side and apportion damages accordingly...
...Rape with Elizabeth Montgomery was the first major TV drama to take a composed but telling look at that crime from the woman's point of view. The identical theme was sensationally exploited the same year with Born Innocent, which cast Teen-Ager Linda Blair as the victim of a sexual assault committed with a broom handle. Although prime-time dramatizations of proscribed subjects get most of the attention, taboos are often first broached on soap operas. In October, for example, the creators of All My Children arranged the maiden, if not maidenly, appearance of a continuing lesbian character...