Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beef Stroganoff. Guest Litvinoff said that Host Cooper's services "are already inscribed in the geography of the Soviet Union and endure in the concrete of Dnieprostroy" Dam, but he singled out as "probably the oldest friend of the Soviet Union in America" none other than that dramatic victim of amnesia, Col. Raymond Robins who wandered off among the mountains of North Carolina while en route to visit President Hoover (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932, et seq.). In Russia, where the Colonel headed a U. S. Red Cross mission in bloody 1917 and which he revisited...
...conclusive evidence has been received which would in any way determine the cause of the present trouble. Whether it was undue economy, on the part of the University in an effort to construct the houses and other buildings as cheaply as possible or whether the Houses were a victim of the boom year construction so frequently found in work of that period when buildings were put up as fast and as cheaply as possible at the expense of durability and other qualities which would make it possible for the buildings to stand for many decades to come with a minimum...
...still dusk fortnight ago a small closed car sped along the highway between San Jose, Calif, and San Mateo. Inside were two kidnappers and their victim, Brooke Hart, 22. son of San Jose's wealthiest department store owner. On the San Mateo bridge across a corner of San Francisco Bay, the car stopped. The three men got out. One of them from behind smashed Brooke Hart's skull with a brick. Together they bound his limp body with baling wire, stole his wallet, lifted him over the bridge railing, heaved him into San Francisco...
...copy. From her Monday press conferences, which she innovated, comes many a little human interest yarn. Fortnight ago she started another of her countless crusades, this time against poisonous cosmetics. In the Department of Agriculture's "chamber of horrors" she had discovered two photographs of a horribly blinded victim of "Lash Lure." Showing them to the ladies of the Press, she pressed the pictures to her breast and exclaimed: "I cannot bear to look at them...
Calm and fearless, the bushmaster is one of the rare snakes (others: African mamba, Malayan king) which will attack a human being without provocation. Though its venom is slightly less toxic than the fer-de-lance's, it injects far more, hence is deadlier. One human victim died in less than ten minutes...