Word: victims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Collective security is collaboration and cooperation between democratic countries to discern a war aggressor from its victim and to help the victim in every possible manner," defined Representative Bernard...
Once healthy, abstemious Shah Reza considered outlawing opium smoking, but factors other than reform weighed heavily. Important was the fact that an estimated half of the adult population smokes opium, that it is used as solace for the famine victim, to quiet crying babies and pleading children, to deaden the pain of a disease-ridden population largely unserved by doctors or hospitals, as well as for sheer pleasure. More important was that the opium trade, transported by camel caravan into Russia, then carried over the Tran-siberian Railroad to China by the obliging Soviets, accounted for more than half...
...part of her story, which otherwise runs so true to form it resembles the competent playing of a piece of music that everybody knows. Out of family conflicts, the War, Depression, the two families produce one unhappy intermarriage, one well-known liberal, one feminist, one famous artist, one War victim, one monk. The third generation turns out a talented left-wing artist, an illegitimate-born Communist, an avowed Fascist. Despite this disturbing picture of British family history, Author Bentley takes a calm view of the future: If half of the preceding generation muddled through, reasons one of her characters...
...instructor in a New Orleans college, involved in the poisoning of one of his students, fights through the fog of mystery hanging over the victim's wealthy, subtle, degenerate family...
...were accused in the Soviet press of everything from drinking champagne with nuns to plotting assassinations of Soviet officials. Last week, with at least 20 bishops in jail and one, Metropolitan Theophan of Gorki, reported executed, the threat of the crusher appeared to have "converted" at least one potential victim. Nikolas Platonoff, Metropolitan of the Living Church in Leningrad for the past four years, announced he had abandoned the church...