Word: victims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doctors now think that perhaps as many as a third of the 7,500,000 joint-sore U.S. victims of arthritis and other rheumatic diseases have trouble that is primarily "psychogenic," i.e., caused by the emotions. The pain is just as real as if the victim had a physical form of the disease; sometimes the psychogenic rheumatic has inflammations and changes in the blood that show up in laboratory tests, and sometimes not-just as victims of psychosomatic stomach trouble sometimes have ulcers that can be seen in X rays, sometimes have nothing at all to show the doctor...
...Maulden, virtue personified, is trying to locate his victim, born in Illinois, living in New York, and a Navy veteran...
Next day Michael Hippisley, a hay-fever victim, who had injections for hay-fever last winter, was bundled off to the infirmary. When his sneezes showed no sign of letting up, alarmed school authorities sent him home to London. His parents called in, one after the other, two general practitioners, a hay-fever specialist, an otolaryngologist, a chiropractor and a hypnotist...
...soon began to look as though Gerhart was operating strictly under his own steam and was perhaps a victim of his own ego. Carol King, his attorney and a longtime defender of Communists, almost exploded when she heard that he had jumped his $23,500 bail-money that had been put up by Communist-front groups. Cried she: "Reprehensible...
Veteran Cinemactor Clark Gable, victim of many a make-up man and wardrobe mistress, found that he could also dish it out. At a Manhattan party, his impromptu costume designing bested the efforts of Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. and Violinist Nathan Milstein. Artistically flinging yard goods around bathing-suited models, Gable achieved outstanding success by making Model Charlotte Hanker appear to be having just as much...