Word: victimness
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Watkins was the victim of this early assault, touched up for eight hits and seven earned runs in her three innings of work. Voaklander, however, was stellar out of the bullpen, shutting out the Tar Heels for the remaining four frames on three hits and no walks...
...disabilities who oppose assisted suicide and euthanasia, maintains that the starvation and dehydration of Terri Schiavo will put the lives of thousands of severely disabled children and adults at risk. (The organization takes its name from the scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail in which a plague victim not dying fast enough is hit over the head and carted away after repeatedly insisting he is not dead yet.) Not Dead Yet exposes important biases in the “right to die” movement, including the fact that as early as 1988, Jack Kevorkian advertised his intention...
...Finally, for those that called in to that radio show, those of you who believe depression is a sign of weakness, I want you to think if you would ever call a cancer victim or someone suffering from AIDS weak. Cancer, AIDS, depression, and other mental illnesses are all sicknesses, and those who suffer from any of these ailments should not be belittled...
...persuaded that evidence of a victim’s prior violent conduct may be probative of whether the victim was the first aggressor where a claim of self-defense has been asserted,” the SJC decision stated. “Trial judges [now] have the discretion to admit in evidence specific incidents of violence that the victim is reasonably alleged to have initiated...
It’s not “McCarthyism” when a student tells a professor she disagrees with him. Nevertheless playing the victim card did help Thernstrom win a White House appointment...