Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City hospitals began suspecting Legionnaires' disease as the cause of the unusual type of pneumonia from which six garment-district patients were suffering, they sent blood samples first to the CDC laboratory in Manhattan for analysis and then to Atlanta. The CDC confirmed the diagnosis. By then two victims had died, both deliverymen, who trundle racks loaded with dresses through traffic-choked streets. Investigators looking for clues to the source of the outbreak instantly checked to see if the two worked for the same shop; they did not, but were employed on the same block. A woman worker from...
...scandal-infested municipal sanitary district won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1962; subsequently, he headed inquiries into election fraud and federal housing programs that garnered his paper two more Pulitzers. According to Tribune Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, Bliss was a "perfectionist who agonized over details and in effect became a victim of his own intense devotion to journalism...
Many Americans harbor an unwholesome and even dangerous contempt for the justice system. Neither criminals nor victims have much faith in its workings: the one class does not fear it much, and the other does not trust it. A mugger leaves a victim crippled, life blighted, and bound to ruinous expenses for treatment. Through plea bargaining and parole indulgences, the attacker emerges from his "punishment" in a matter of months or less, to resume his career. The social contract gets badly tattered in its passage through such a system...
...only known victim is Janet Parker, 40, a medical photographer. She developed fever and a rash in early August, but two weeks passed before her illness was diagnosed as variola major, the severe form of smallpox. The time lag is understandable. There have been no smallpox deaths in Britain for five years, and doctors rarely see the disease...
...Brooklyn, Mark Feinstein, executive director of Vera Institute's Victim/ Witness Assistance Project, admits that intimidation accounts for some no-shows. But more are due to misunderstanding of the criminal-justice system. Lots of people call for a cop to protect them, but, says Feinstein bluntly: "The large majority have no intention of going to court when they make their complaint." To combat disaffection, the Vera program provides a special reception center for witnesses in the courthouse, free transportation to court, day care for witnesses' children, a "victim's hot line" so prospective witnesses can get instant...