Word: victims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is something about screwing a chair to the floor which carries unpleasant associations, mainly a feeling of compulsion, of regimentation. The occupant of a screwed-down chair seems more often than not to be a victim, a passive but restless recipient of a necessary, but irksome attention. I must be thinking of barbers' chairs, dentists' chairs, and possibly electric chairs. Somehow screwing down seems inappropriate to a class-room...
...story of the police reporter who took the picture of the victim of an accident instead of helping her [TIME, Oct. 24] was, to this reader, blood-chilling...
...know why? For helping illiterates, that's why." After explaining what an illiterate is, the speaker went on. "For helping illiterates," the chairman emphasized. The audience, now in the spirit of things, was muttering, displeased over such an injustice. A little louder, the speaker explained that the poor victim of good government had only been enabling these illiterates to exercise their FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO VOTE UNDER THE CONSTITUTION. He had registered for them. Thus there was no doubt left that good government organizations are not good...
...because streptomycin, more than any other of the antibiotics, tends to develop resistant strains of germs. Some strains learn to live with it, even becoming dependent on it-as if a rat began to fatten on rat poison. The resistant strains can be highly dangerous; if they infect another victim, he cannot be cured by streptomycin or anything else yet known...
...Browning Version is not just grey from pedagogical dust, but is black and withered with failure. Disliked by his pupils, disdained by the headmaster, he is endlessly tortured by his snob and shrew and slut of a wife, who makes him the confidant as well as the victim of her infidelities. When a pupil suddenly floods him with happiness by bringing him a present, his wife promptly points out that the gift is doubtless really a bribe. At the end, thanks to the prodding of his wife's rebellious lover, Crocker-Harris shows signs of rebelling too-a final...