Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dorothy Thompson: "She is a victim of galloping nascence. Most of her newspaper training was received abroad when she was an active if not particularly profound foreign correspondent. Returning to her native land, she is suddenly filled with the same fervor of discovery as 'Stout Cortez' or Columbus. . . . If all the speeches she has made in the past twelve months were laid end to end they would constitute a bridge of platitudes sufficient to reach from the Herald Tribune's editorial rooms to the cold caverns of the moon. Dorothy Thompson is greater than Eliza because...
...height of an attack of St. Louis' encephalitis a victim's brain is inflamed. He has a high fever, a bad headache and becomes irrational. About half of last week's sufferers were lethargic-drowsy and sleepy. The other half were hyperkinetic. They involuntarily jerked fingers, arms, legs...
...African sleeping sickness," or trypanosomiasis, is caused by a microorganism introduced into the victim's blood by bites of the tsetse...
...library building on your right was given by Mrs. Eleanor Widener, of the famous Widener family of Philadelphia, in memory of her son, Harry Elkins Widener, a graduate of Harvard College in the Class of 1907 and a victim of the sinking in 1912 of the ill-fated ship Titanic...
When Soviet machinations in revolution-torn Sinkiang province brought an order to get rid of all "questionable" foreigners, the roundup produced seven individuals as mysterious as Serafimov, who traveled together until further machinations caused a further splitting up of their ranks. Serafimov's victim was a fastidious, ratlike Belgian named Goupillière. A murderer himself, Goupillière's face was "as subtle as a woman's, as ambiguous as a thief's," since it was divided by an ugly scar left when a mistress had tried to kill him with a pair of scissors...