Word: victimizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Color & Curiosity. After World War II, as suburban shopping centers appeared throughout the U.S., catalogue sales slumped badly. But the shopping centers in a sense have become a victim of their own success: they are congested. Thus, taking advantage of what they term "the convenience factor," catalogue companies today emphasize telephone shopping. Sears maintains 58 catalogue switchboards around the nation, keeps the busiest of them open on a round-the-clock basis. Credit purchasing has been added to catalogues, and deliveries have been speeded up. Catalogue prices run 4% under those of retail stores because of savings in sales forces...
...Bored with business, he turned to intellectual pursuits. Eventually, like a proper Adams, he became a historian of some note, president of the American Historical Association, an overseer of Harvard. By the time he died in 1915 at the age of 79, he had become such a complete victim of the family compulsion to put words on paper that he had even written his autobiography. As Adams autobiographies go, Charles's proved less than scintillating. It remained for Professor Kirkland to provide a properly engrossing study of a remarkable tycoon...
...weekend publicity drive can become hectic, and has on occasion been cut short by the winner. Salerno quoted one Playboy spokesman as saying, "We don't want to make you feel like a victim. We want you to feel like the contest winner...
...reconstruct their evidence from the dead. Cardiologist Meyer Friedman and Dutch-born Physiologist G. J. Van den Bovenkamp of the Harold Brunn Institute at Mount Zion Medical Center persuaded pathologists in hospitals near San Francisco to send them the occluded segment of coronary artery from each heart-attack victim on whom they had performed an autopsy. The two researchers sliced the coronary specimens crosswise, and after examining countless paper-thin specimens under the microscope, worked out the sequence of a typical coronary occlusion...
...across the border like a platoon of panthers. Unhappily, the Texas Devils, as the Mexicans called them, were so blind-crazy for blood that they often made more enemies than they killed. In Mexico City, for instance, when a Mexican made so bold as to murder a Ranger, the victim's friends went on a shooting spree that in one day deposited 80 corpses on the streets of the conquered capital...