Word: victims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both the Crimson and the Blue have defeated Princeton in the only contest upon which comparison may be made. Yale won in a very close match by the score of six to one, while the Tiger proved an easy victim for Coach Harry E. Cowles' men, falling by the score of seven to nothing...
...victim retaliated by charging several councilmen, including Jack Pool, with cheating. On the third day, after a grilling, he withdrew all charges. Suddenly President Pool rose, took a deep breath, announced that, along with all the members of a French class, he had cheated during his freshman year. Well aware that freshman cheating is not ordinarily cause for suspension, he demanded that he be made an exception. In shocked silence the council voted unanimously to suspend Jack Pool...
...with hoboes in a Chattanooga "jungle" the night before the alleged crime, told for the eighth time in public how Patterson and the other Negroes had chased off her white "boyfriends" and raped her in the freight car-a tale long since repudiated by Ruby Bates, the other alleged victim of the attack. When the State rested it was after 5 p. m. The courtroom was fetid. The defense had no witnesses on hand except Defendant Patterson, whom it did not want to call at that time. Nevertheless, Judge Callahan peremptorily ordered that the trial continue, that Patterson take...
...makes his entrance as a victim of amnesia, whose inability to remember his own name is only less astonishing than the fact that he is driving a big car and appears to have unlimited quantities of $100 bills, which he hides under rugs and between the slats of Venetian blinds. A faint glimmer of self-recognition flickers when a horse he is riding in the effort to find out whether or not he is a renowned polo player throws him into a pond, where he encounters the famed Penner duck. During the commencement exercises at the school which, as anticipated...
...with Mario, although Mario is attentive to her only from habit. In comparison with Mario, who believes that "if you are a man you must be ready to fight every other man and to make love to every pretty woman,'' Rose finds Oliver stiff, deliberate, chilling, the victim of a moral cramp. Rejected again, Oliver returns to the front, is killed. The book ends as Mario visits Rose to tell her of Oliver's last provisions for her, is pained at her disinterest in Oliver's wishes and Oliver's will, perplexed and uncomprehending...