Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senators Minton, Thomas, Vandenberg, Burke, Nye and Adams, as well as several Congressmen. Steve Early, White House secretary, came out of the President's study next day and remarked to reporters with studied severity: "It would have been kind and polite of the speaker to have consulted the victim before he spoke." This satisfied nobody, but it served to remind a U. S. absorbed by the War that a Presidential election was only 377 days away, and that the third term was an issue...
...immediate cause of angina, doctors know practically nothing. They suspect that the violent pain arises from some kink in the nervous system. Standard treatment is rest, easy living. Anything may bring on an attack: anger, bad news, indigestion, physical strain, and each attack may be the last. A victim may live several decades, may die in an hour. To ease their agonizing pain, most sufferers carry a supply of tiny nitroglycerin tablets in their pockets...
...Wing, Minn., on the sweetgrass prairie 60 miles from Minneapolis, there grew up the son of a wholesale grocer who was the victim of two apparently irreconcilable ambitions-to be a minister and to make moving pictures. His name was James Friedrich. For two years at the University of Minnesota young Friedrich was a 16 mm. movie bug, ran the Bell & Howell camera supply agency. Still resolved to be a minister, he transferred to the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Va. There pious, cinemad James Friedrich set a precedent by writing his doctor's thesis (on the life...
...others the rights which he claimed for Germany. Revolutions are like avalanches, which once set in motion cannot stop until they crash to destruction at the appointed end of their career. History alone will determine whether Herr Hitler could have diverted Naziism into normal channels, whether he was the victim of the movement which he had initiated, or whether it was his own megalomania which drove it beyond the limits which civilisation was prepared to tolerate...
...boats sank the 14,115-ton French oil tanker Emile Miguet, their biggest merchant victim to date, and the 5,202-ton British freighter Heronspool. Few days later U-boats destroyed by raking, ruthless shellfire two more French and one British merchantman totaling 26,216 tons. Eight were killed and among the survivors brought ashore by rescue ships 30 wounded victims were on stretchers...