Word: victimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sense of power," Osterberg says. "It fits in quite well with [the] teen and young adult mentality of being invincible and young adult mentality of being invincible and not really considering the consequences of actions. A more mature person may be more likely to be on the victim side of such an attack, and thus, have a better appreciation for why such things can be so damaging...
...turned its victim over and stomped on his face. It was already beaten beyond recognition. One eyeball was out of its socket. Another of his tormentors sliced his ear with a blade. "Let him die slowly," someone said, and the mob laughed...
...Instead of intimidating the youths, Judge Shutter tried to keep the mood light. "Don't come back and visit," he joked to some before moving on to the next case. After meting out punishment, Shutter ordered the teens to watch a grisly video showing an autopsy on an emphysema victim...
...with its parallel suggestion of Clinton as a slovenly, appetite-riven Henry VIII. Still, it would take someone with image-making skills far beyond Starr's to pass off the prosecutor as a martyr. It would take someone, say, with the ability to turn a cheeseball philanderer into a victim. It would take--well, it would take Ken Starr...
...absorbed, prideful, flamboyant fellow--"Good Time Charlie Merrill," his friends called him--he had the unconscious expectation that Great Men always have: that he should be at the center of any orbit he entered. And so he was. As his son once wrote, "Whatever he decided to serve, the victim was meant to choke it down and be grateful...