Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice McCook summed up in words of homely wisdom: "Most of those pretty faces are but masks for tainted bodies. The prostitute is both victim and enticer and her life is full of lies. . . . [But] if you believe what she says, then the story stands and the fact that she is a prostitute is of no moment...
...clutches at his heart, droops, collapses, in a few minutes is dead. "Heart failure," announces the ambulance doctor. "Coronary thrombosis," reports the autopsist. "A blood clot clogged one of the principal blood vessels of the heart muscle and caused it to fail," explains the family doctor. Not every victim of a heart attack dies instanter. But doctors almost universally are pessimistic about a heart victim living long thereafter. And the survivors live in continual apprehension...
...Legion's "Colonel" Harvey Davis decided on hanging. Poole was lured to the meeting on the pretext that he was needed for a sandlot baseball team. The men piled into a string of automobiles with their victim, started out of town. At a spot near Dearborn, after a round of drinks, one Denton Dean discovered that there was no rope handy, abruptly shot five slugs into Charles Poole...
...this disease. Since black cancers are malignant tumors and raised pigmented moles are benign tumors, pathologists call both Melanomas. What all cancer specialists know and what few laymen realize is that black moles sometimes turn suddenly into black cancers which are rarely recognized in time to save the victim's life...
...casualties in the War totaled about 1,000,000, deaths about 78,000. Lewisite was developed too late for War use. Like mustard gas, it inflames its victim's respiratory system, burns his skin. Its superiority to mustard gas lies in the fact that it also poisons the burns...