Word: victimness
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...firing subsided, one of the terrorists, fatally wounded by security officers, flashed a V-for-victory sign with his fingers, then died. Another of the killers dropped to the floor and pretended to be a victim. When the shooting stopped completely, he began to crawl slowly away. Then he broke into a run. "Catch him, catch him!" several passengers yelled. A policeman overtook him and stopped him with a punch...
More troubling still is the case of Edward Baltram, Harry's stepson by his second wife. This young man has sneaked drugs into a good friend's sandwich, hoping to initiate him without his consent into the wonders of hallucinogenic insights. What happens instead is that the friend and victim, temporarily left alone by Edward, walks out of a window and falls to his death. Once the authorities and newspapers finish raking over the details of this tragic accident, "Edward passed out of the public eye into his private hell...
...feel sympathy not for Dale Burr but for his victims. Many Americans experience financial disaster without going on a rampage of murderous retribution. Burr was not a victim of the current farmers' plight. He was homicidal and vengeful. The real tragedy is that Burr chose himself as his final rather than his first victim. John F. Doran Jr. Lawrenceville...
...infighting that had effectively deposed two chief executives of the firm. The first was a former Nixon Cabinet member with a Greek immigrant background but Wasp manners and connections; the other was a company insider who throughout his life, even at this Jewish-founded firm, believed himself a victim of anti-Semitism...
...children. Khater was convicted by a military court and sentenced to life imprisonment, but last week he was found dead in his room at a prison hospital. An autopsy concluded that he had committed suicide by hanging himself, but after demonstrations broke out on university campuses and in the victim's hometown, a court ordered a further investigation...