Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to testimony at the trial, Provenzano in 1961 tapped Konigsberg, Salvatore ("Sally Bugs") Briguglio and Salvatore ("Big Sal") Sinno to kill a union rival, Anthony Castellito. They lured the victim to his own summer home in the Catskills, knocked him out with a lead-filled hose and strangled him with a rope. His body has never been found...
...also has been expanding rapidly, and contractors have been filling in swamps and marshes for real estate developments. The result: the once endangered species became an endangering one, venturing onto golf courses and into backyard swimming pools. Last year there were twelve unprovoked attacks by gators on humans. One victim, a man who had been cleaning weeds from his dock, died...
Neyda Moscowitz, whose daughter Stacy, 20, was David Berkowitz's last victim, announced that she would meet with candidates in New York's gubernatorial primary to press for restoration of capital punishment. "I want him dead, dead, dead," she told reporters. Berkowitz's judges recommended that he never be paroled, but their counsel is in no way binding on future parole-board decisions. Said Queens District Attorney John Santucci: "The big fear is that those who follow us will forget what we went through...
...elderly local official who, too unsophisticated to comprehend the twists and turns of the Cultural Revolution, is executed by a group of Red Guards. Unable to perceive that he has become a victim of irrationality and self-righteousness, he clings like some Chinese Billy Budd to the one bit of certainty he knows. At the moment of his unjust death, he shouts, "Long live the Communist Party! Long live Chairman Mao!" Another less innocent victim is Jen Hsiu-lan, a proud, fanatical woman revolutionary who loses out in one of the revolution's murky factional twists. Rather than submit...
...necessary, thus driving medical costs up further. The doctor too is encouraged to provide services that are not strictly needed. Faced with the question of whether to cut or not to cut, too many surgeons sharpen the scalpel. The patient in such cases becomes the unwitting victim of a system that is supposed to safeguard his health, not jeopardize it. Of the 700,000 people now in acute-care hospitals, HEW estimates that 100,000 should not be there...