Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subjected to the inexorable tyranny of an unjust mother. Buffeted by the harsh tribulations of unhappy domestic life, he becomes engulfed in a whirlwind of despair which barely escapes culmination in a terrible fate. It is not until his psychological problem is fully understood by his father, a victim of unhappy matrimony, that he finds solace in the maxim that it is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misfortune...
Commander Van Zandt of the Veterans of Foreign Wars has been the most conspicuous victim of the attack of the new movement, but the commander obligingly stuck his neck out right in the path of the arrows. Having branded the Veterans of Future Wars as yellow, Mr. Van Zandt was accused of being the "tool of Moscow" in his unpatriotic efforts to discredit America's future soldiers. Professional patriots belong to the lowest intellectual group in the country, and it should not be hard to beat them with equal success in future encounters...
...Congressmen, the ranks of Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd. have swelled & swelled as oldsters from coast to coast planked down their 10?-per-month dues in the happy faith that they would soon be getting back $200 per month from the Government. Last week the Townsend legion fell victim to the disaster which has humbled many a proud army in the past-dissension...
...these electioneering efforts der Führer was assisted by Nazi censors who dealt with incoming dispatches from London in such fashion that from reading German newsorgans one would have supposed that the British people, most British statesmen and many French people considered Germany wholly guiltless and the victim of a few French statesmen of the most hate-poisoned stamp. Actually the guilt of Germany was voted by eleven nations of the League Council without a single dissenting voice...
Caught in the grip of a flood problem that has vexed mankind since pre-historic times, Mr. Westcott and his much-lampooned kitchen fell victim last week to the sinister power that is sour milk. Science, with all its starry array of meat-choppers, lemon-peelers, and assembly lines for manufacturing potatoes an gratin, had no way to tell of the fallibility of the bovine world till the crescendo of sensitive student's protest reached a revolutionary shout. A system so mechanically perfect, yet so hard and insensitive to the demands of the taste buds, has lived too long with...