Word: victimizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drifted in his lifeguard's rowboat, a playful swimmer reached up and began rocking the boat. Quesada's response was strikingly similar to his techniques even today: he raised an oar and whacked the swimmer on the hands. The victim was an Air Service pilot. The two made friends quickly, and soon thereafter the pilot took Quesada up for an airplane ride. That did it: the day after his first ride, Pete Quesada joined the Air Service, went off to training as a flying cadet. He became a first-class pilot...
...many Britons, the almost instinctive hostility to the House of Mountbatten goes back to the anti-German feeling of World War I, when Wagner's music was banned from the Albert Hall and to have a German name could mean getting the sack. Most prominent victim of the anti-German feeling of the day was no less a personage than Britain's German-born First Sea Lord, Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, who had been a British subject for 46 years...
...they hoped would be a cure, or at least a palliative, for their suffering. Whether they called their complaint a cold or catarrh, die Grippe- or flu, the answer was the same: for none of these illnesses caused by viruses does medicine have a cure. The best that any victim can expect is the relief of some immediate symptoms and unimpeded recovery from the original viral infection before a secondary bacterial infection can cause complications...
...others here and know they'll understand. But most important is the fact that you can get the job honestly. You don't have to lie on the application. In most places, if you answer truthfully you just don't get the job." Said another, a victim of anxiety neurosis: "Here I feel that if I did have an anxiety attack, they'd understand. So I don't have one." But the B & K bosses say they are not running a rehabilitation center. Any worker who fails to perform adequately, they insist, will be fired...
...detectable cause such as infection, the prostate may become gradually enlarged-from a little more than an inch long by i% in. broad to double or triple its normal size. A year may elapse before painful or difficult urination, backache, testicular pain or sexual impotence sends the victim to his doctor. At this stage, the already enlarged prostate is especially vulnerable to secondary infection. Once this infection has been cleared, surgery is the usual answer-and mandatory in the 10% to 15% of cases where cancer has developed...