Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this, the Republicans thought they caught the scent of a likely victim. Said Kansas Senator Robert Dole, who will act as temporary chairman of the G.O.P. convention: "Carter is a Southern-fried McGovern or a Southern-fried Humphrey." Reagan Strategist Lyn Nofzinger beamed at the choice of Mondale. "We were very happy," he said...
When a 23-year-old ex-con named John Rojas was recently brought into the emergency room of New York's Hospital for Joint Diseases and Medical Center with three serious gunshot wounds, he seemed to be just another victim of street violence in crime-riddled Harlem. But by the time surgeons finished patching him up, they realized Rojas's case could well go into medical annals. One of the bullets had made an incredible 32-inch journey through his body; yet the man miraculously survived. The case was so extraordinary that its like has seldom been seen...
Without a doubt, the U.S. delegates were the top bananas of the conference. Professor Jennings Bryant of the University of Massachusetts tried to explain why the victim of a joke does not usually laugh unless he can think of a halfway witty comeback ("Degrees of Hostility in Squelches Featuring Retaliatory Equity as a Factor in Humor Appreciation"). Paul McGhee of Pels Research Institute, Yellow Springs, Ohio, read an almost incomprehensible dissertation, "Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Considerations for a Theory of the Origins of Humor," referring to "intrahumans," "arousal fluctuations" and "stimulus discrepancies." His conclusion: if you can't think...
Eventually the promised murder does occur, the victim being one from the ranks of this celebrated cast. Those who remain among the living all become suspects, and Simon's denouement is a confusing collage of accusations, counter-accusations, and "now top this" solutions to the crime. But Simon's delineation of plot and motive (two rather important elements of a good murder mystery) is simply to weak and insubstantial to hold it all together. What results is an incomprehensible blur...
...Cabin did not quite start a war, it ignited the minds of people North and South, both for and against abolition. Tens of thousands of Americans who had not even read the book already knew Simon Legree as the classic slave driver and Uncle Tom as the black victim...