Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...code's first victim was Greg Schneiders, 29, who joined Carter in 1975 as a baggage carrier and became a confidential aide. After reading an FBI report on his bad debts and bounced checks, he withdrew from consideration as White House appointments secretary...
...isolated Tel Baruch Beach north of Tel Aviv. Inside the car was a .22-cal. revolver and the body of a man who had shot himself in the head after scribbling a final message to his wife and children, asking them to "accept this act with understanding." The victim: Avraham Ofer, 55, Housing Minister in Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government and a longtime Labor Party official...
Numbers Man. Franklin seems to have fallen victim to his own attempts to bring more scientific management to the diverse, largely fashion-oriented (Henri Bendel, Bonwit Teller) business. Jarman, a numbers man who carries an elaborate pocket calculator, lopped off several divisions, including San Remo men's suits and I. Miller women's shoes, and slashed 10,000 employees from the payroll. The surgery alienated the heads of many of Genesco's 78 operating divisions, who resented Jarman's lack of merchandising expertise. Some grumbled that Jarman "ran a fashion business as though it were...
...mute was arrested again and charged with strangling to death another prostitute, whose body was found stuffed in the closet of a $4.49-for-four-hours room in a Chicago hotel. Once more the evidence against Lang was strong: the day before the body was discovered, he and the victim registered at the hotel; Lang left alone. Again police found bloodstains on his clothing. In January 1972 he was tried, convicted and then sentenced to 14 to 25 years. But in February 1975 an Illinois Appellate Court reversed that conviction on grounds that it was "constitutionally impermissible" because...
...cinematic illusion (movie), directed by a renowned beguiler (Welles), about a world-famous flimflammer (Irving) who at the time the film was shot just happened to be assembling a life story of the modern art market's most remarkable phony (deHory). And that's just what the viewer (victim) is supposed to believe. By running the story through flash-forwards, flash-backs, run-arounds and red herrings, Welles goes on to confuse the audience about the veracity of anything, or everything, or--as Welles might like to suggest--nothing...