Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...narrowly escaped censure by his outraged colleagues. U.S. consumers may have to pay millions of dollars a year more for natural gas. Even the ostensible winners, the oil and gas lobbies, are sure to see their victory diluted later on. But add to that list of losers another big victim, the U.S. Senate, whose venerable rules were fractured in a resort to steamroller tactics by the Democratic leadership...
...killer toward its orbiting prey. The anti-satellite interceptor (ASAT) has a parabolic "dish" antenna that homes in on the target satellite and gets the ASAT - actu ally a space bomb - close to the target, where it detonates. The ASAT goes off like a super hand grenade, spraying the victim satellite with metal-piercing fragments. ASAT's main target would be the top U.S. spy satellite: "Big Bird," a 10-ton reconnaissance craft that is vulnerable to attack in low orbit (120 miles in space...
Worries about the virulence of the Italian kidnaping disease were soon reinforced. On the same day as the Ortiz-Patińo abduction, Italian police logged their 60th kidnaping this year. The victim was Giorgio Garbero, 4, grandson of Orfeo Pianelli, a wealthy Turin industrialist The child was seized from his stroller by two men as his grandmother wheeled him home from a park. Before the accompanying guard could reach his revolver, he was clubbed and then blinded by a chemical that one of the kidnapers sprayed in his face. The ransom demand, thought to be the highest in Italian...
When David despairingly realizes his love for Claire is already withering and that he is only a victim of his own faults, he curses himself. He tells himself he is not one of those sympathetic lost characters out of Chekhov but the insane amputee in a story by Gogol who places an ad for the return of his lost nose. What Roth succeeds in portraying, though, with all the delicacy and poignancy of the Russian dramatist, is that Kepesh is in fact a figure from a Chekhov novel. Not a warped, disfigured monster but a man whose constant pursuit...
...tenacity in holding to this view. He suffers the slights and cruelties that might be expected as he works his way up from dry-goods clerk to successful lawyer. But Adler's faith in America is severely tested when he defends a young Jew accused of murder. The victim is a 14-year-old Christian girl, and the defendant is the plant manager of a new soft-drink firm that strongly resembles Coca-Cola in its formative years. Deep and violent prejudice shows itself as angry crowds clog Savannah streets during the trial. Here Kluger (author of last year...