Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They ordered transmitted to all League member states the text of a Finnish proposal to establish a credit of $40,000,000, any portion of which might in case of war be extended under League auspices to any state adjudged "the victim of aggression." Thus instead of possessing an army of soldiers to enforce peace, the League would have "an army of dollars." Finns hope that this ambitious proposal will be adopted when the League Assembly meets next September...
...loyalty of us princes to the British Crown is no mere figure of speech!" declared the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, notorious some years ago as "Mr. A." (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924), the victim of an English woman who blackmailed...
...When the 'ricks' find a 'sarker' or victim with money†, it 'becomes the object of the 'hammerer' to 'gazoomph' him; and this or any swindle is known as 'slinging...
Patrons of the University Theatre were probably not on hand last night to see Feagan and his pals "bump off" their victim. They know that "Flash" the famous movie canine, got "Feagan's gang" on the University screen all during the first part of the week, and that the desperadoes of "The Dreamland Cafe Below the Deadline" in the picture "Shadows of the Underworld" could not possibly injure the genial traffic officer...
...claiming sainthood for Louis XVI as a martyr to the faith, French Catholics are undoubtedly stretching somewhat the historical version of his execution. Louis was primarily a political victim; his life was a standing menace to the security of any thoroughgoing revolutionary regime and as such could not have been spared. But the case of the French Catholics is not so ill-founded as at first blush might appear...