Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main square of the camp, the guilty soldier lay prone at the centre on a piece of rush mat or burlap, surrounded by the commanding officers and the rows of the armed units. The regimental band of music begins to play. Two corporals press the shoulders of the victim and two the thighs...
...this legal torturing, the victim was raised by the help of the sergeants, had to salute his commanders thanking them for the punishment...
...have seen this ceremony performed hundreds of times. I have not witnessed a single case in which the victim uttered a word of resistance or complaint. This punishment was legal and considered a part of army discipline...
...Park, Ill. the mother of Patricia Maguire, famed sleeping sickness victim who has been in a coma since February 1932 (TIME, April 15 et ante), announced: "Never would I want them to bring death to my Pat. I would be tempted to kill anyone who hinted that I'd want them to do anything to my girl...
Surgeons in plays and cinemas who whisper "Brain tumor!" behind the doomed victim's back give laymen the impression that these disorders are rare. But Dr. Harvey Williams Gushing, famed Yale brain surgeon, declares that no part of the body, with the possible exception of the uterus, is as troubled by such malignant growths as the brain. Dr. Gushing has made the acquaintance of more than one thousand brain tumors and one of the commonest, most rapidly growing and most immediately fatal types-the spongioblastoma-comprises one-third of his cases. Surgical removal is sometimes effective but there...