Word: raping
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...University police official yesterday gave more complete details on the near rape of a Harvard graduate student two weeks...
...grabbed her into the car and made threats," but the woman apparently persuaded the assailant not to rape her, and escaped from the car, Morse said...
...protagonist of "Lover," for example, is a young doctor who becomes obsessed with a mad girl who was brought to his hospital one night battered and raped. The girl seems to symbolize for him the void that underlies his cozy bourgeois life. If it were not for one small detail that Oates adds to the story, the doctor's obsession would be noble, or at any rate much better than middle class complacency. But at the end of the story we learn that the doctor had become sexually excited while examining the girl for evidence of rape. This detail, combined...
...enforcement of the law-and especially a jury verdict-is often affected by shifts in public opinion. In two successful murder defenses of recent years, feminists succeeded in "raising the consciousness" of the national public about the emotional problems of Southern black women in the Joan Little case and rape victims in the Inez Garcia trial. Now they hope to shift the spotlight to a Wisconsin trial and the battered-wife syndrome...
...woman was apparently forced into a car outside the library on Appian Way and driven a distance, while the occupants of the car attempted to rape her. She was freed or freed herself a short time later...