Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone who could provide help and advice and comfort and expertise. Rescuers swarmed from all corners of the city and eventually the surrounding states as well. So many nurses showed up so quickly, said one witness, that after half an hour there was at least one nurse for every victim. A priest in purple vestments and latex gloves tried to comfort the grieving and pray for the dead...
...victim of these miscues was Brown, who saw her record drop to 8-4 despite allowing just seven hits and one earned run in going the distance for the Crimson...
...intertwined," says James Lilley, former U.S. ambassador to China and now an American Enterprise Institute fellow, "and both are heating up." Many analysts in Beijing see Jiang's hand behind a series of corruption arrests targeted at top officials in the Beijing city government. Thus far the highest victim was a vice mayor, who committed suicide, a development not reported in the domestic Chinese media. Last week the capital was awash with rumors of more arrests and investigations involving top bureaucrats, their children and personal assistants...
...keep their wits intact). According to Moshe Kalian, a psychiatrist at Kfar Shaul, Jerusalem Syndrome may be set off by the thrill of visiting a place previously known only as a sublime dream-"like a movie-star fan who suddenly gets to kiss his idol." Or sufferers may fall victim to the disappointment of discovering that Jerusalem is also an earthly town complete with strip malls and traffic jams. "Unwilling to accept that reality," Kalian explains, "they withdraw from it." Most have a history of mental problems...
Leslie Yancey, a graduate student from North Carolina, said her mother, a victim of domestic abuse, had come to the rally because it was "an important part of [her mother's] healing process...