Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just like the throngs who flock to movies and concerts would love to do. And when Diana's marriage failed, she spent a great deal of time talking about how ill-treated she was, just as so many plebians like to feel wronged in life. After all, playing the victim allows one to deny one's own failings...
...whom Hillary is the most famous, approached adulthood with a wild, subversive earnestness. These women would change the world, have careers, build strong marriages, raise good children and keep their sense of humor. Hillary has been a beneficiary of these expectations, and as First Lady also their most conspicuous victim. Her Wellesley education and Yale law degree put her onstage (as the student speaker at her college commencement and later as one of the nation's "most influential" lawyers), but they also moved her to the side when her husband's Arkansas constituency chafed at her insistence on being called...
While the land-mine issue may seem far removed from the lives of many Americans, the urgency of Williams' work is quite clear to a victim like Marianne Holtz of Boise, Idaho, who lost her legs and half her face to the explosives while working with refugees in Zaire. "As a weapon of war, the land mine is inexcusable," says Holtz. "It kills women and children. It kills people long after any battle is over. There is absolutely no argument for it that is valid." Jody Williams is dedicated to ensuring that everyone comes around to that way of thinking...
...funeral procession began shortly before 10 a.m. and bag pipers played a funeral tune as a police motorcade preceded the hearse, and five limousines carrying the close family and friends of the victim followed...
Thousands of mourners wearing yellow and brown ribbons paid their respects yesterday to the family of murder-kidnapping victim Jeffrey Curley of Cambridge, whose body was discovered in a Maine river on Monday...