Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Penetration v. Laceration. Battlefield wounds are of two main types: penetrating, lacerating. Penetrating wounds are caused by bomb fragments and bullets, lacerating wounds by high explosive bombs. "Secondary bodies" may also act as missiles. "Thus the contents of a victim's pockets," say Drs. Mitchiner and Cowell, "may be peppered by the force of the burst bomb, and such things as ... penknives, coins and pencils may be found distributed in the body, and occasionally outside objects such as pebbles, bits of masonry, and even the bones and soft tissues of a nearby victim may cause wounds." Grease, dirt...
Lacerating wounds usually rip out huge chunks of a victim's body. "The only way to save the lives of most of these patients is prompt amputation." When they are partly eviscerated, as they often are, nothing much can be done...
...beheaded one of 13 dissected human torsos found in Cleveland since 1934, Sheriff Martin L. O'Donnell thought he had "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" (TIME, July 17). When ex-Butcher Dolezal told first one story and then another about how he disposed of his supposed victim's head, worried authorities reduced the charge against him from murder to manslaughter, wondered whether they had a simple lunatic instead of a killer. Last fortnight Frank Dolezal hanged himself in his cell with a towel. Last week Clevelanders wondered whether another murder or another arrest would tell them that...
Sirela, however, is not all peace talk. The dictionary has a column of symbols each for murder (FAREBORE - "The police are holding the victim's fiance for the murder") ; kidnapping (FAMIMIDO - "The child was lured from its home while at play"); vital statistics (FASIDOFA - "The birth of triplets was announced"). The language has other unusual features. The symbol for Reichsfuhrer Adolf Hitler, for example, is LADOSORE. But if Herr Hitler should suddenly be displaced by, say, Nazi-jailed Communist Ernst Thalmann, Sirela would serenely call the new Reichsfuhrer LADOSORE...
...Savannah, Ga., Negro Charlie Williams, listed by the Tuskegee Institute as a lynching victim, was found working in a fertilizer factory. Said he: "I heard I was lynched but didn't pay any attention...