Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...superpower machinations in this region have been guided by the same mentality that was behind Vietnam. While the potential outcome of the deployment remains unknown and frightening for students, the first clear victim is the region's one hope for peace. The Central American countries attempted to set their own house in order with the Arias Plan, but superpowers on both sides of the conflict were quick to destroy that indigenous chance for peace...
...Square is also after a much narrower market now, said Gifford. She said the recent closing of shoes & Things, next doors to Store 24, showed the inability of smaller stores to sustain themselves. "Cobblers are a victim of the times, " she said...
...Square may be a victim of its own success, said Holmes, commenting that its homogenization could take away its attraction. "Now that parking is so expensive in the Square, why would anyone come here if they could get the same things at a mall?" Holmes asked. "You just don't want to kill the goose that laid the golden...
...club lecture in a New Jersey hotel. The camera pans 360 degrees around the room and back to the soldiers and the speaker, who is now revealed as a Chinese specialist in mind control. He orders Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) to shoot one of his men, and the victim's brains splatter across a poster of Stalin. What's going on here? And what is one to make of the right- wing firebrand, inspired by a bottle of ketchup (57 varieties) to invent the number of Communists lurking in the State Department? Or of the liberal Senator who, when...
...earnest young Florida-born pilot whose dentist father talked him past a water-skiing career by providing flying lessons at 16, is up. Circling a mile high around the mountains, Anderson suddenly dives to 200 feet to avoid "enemy" radar and screams at 600 m.p.h. toward the intended victim, an Army surplus M-47 tank having a bad day. The desert is a Jackson Pollock abstract, and Anderson is so low that when he is just four miles away, he can't see the tank. He searches for a clump of bushes named in briefings as a pretarget landmark. Reaching...