Word: victimizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Communists are preoccupied by internal feuds. The Socialists, who are still in shock from their election drubbing, seem psychologically incapable of regaining their old fire. Declares Francois Mitterrand, president of the Federation of the Democratic Socialist Left: "The Federation is more a victim of itself than it was of the elections." Last week, seizing on a drastic remedy, the Socialists disbanded their present party. In the spring, they hope to begin the organization of a new and more vital...
Each year since the 1930s, an estimated 35,000 Americans have fallen victim to Parkinson's disease, or "shaking palsy." Each year, scores of the Chamorros of Guam develop some of the symptoms of Parkinson's, along with a form of muscle degeneration best known in the U.S. as "Lou Gehrig's disease." Just as regularly, hundreds of sheep in a score of different countries begin rubbing their backs against barbed wire, ruining their wool and revealing themselves as victims of scrapie. On North American fur farms, mink of many colors get sick with a sort...
...microbes that behave somewhat predictably. Typically, as in the case of measles, German measles, chicken pox, the common cold and influenza-of the Hong Kong variety, or whatever-they seem to appear from nowhere, spend a few days, or at most two or three weeks, incubating in the victim's body, then cause a brief, feverish illness...
...opposite kind of age phenomenon occurs in Parkinson's disease, or Parkinsonism. At Massachusetts General Hospital, Neurologists David C. Poskanzer and Robert Schwab found records of only 22 cases in 42 years before 1917; since then, there have been more than 1,800 cases. Virtually all recent victims were born within ten years of 1897, and their age at the time their disease developed has been going up steadily-from an average of 34 in 1920 to at least 61 now. The Poskanzer-Schwab explanation: most recent Parkinsonism victims were infected during a 1915-26 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica...
...attention." The MC5 clearly practice much of what they preach, as is shown by their string of arrests on charges of noisemaking, obscenity and possession of marijuana. Just as clearly, even their most aggressive songs are only that-songs, not bricks or guns. It may be that the first victim of their metaphorical revolution will be the overused word revolution itself...