Word: victimizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...former first year graduate student in Economics, who had been confined at a Boston mental health center since last November, returned to commit suicide yesterday afternoon near his former room in Perkins Hall. The victim, John P. Skuba of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., a Rutgers graduate, died of a single shotgun wound in the head, according to Dr. John W. Wells, Jr., the University Health Services physican who pronounced him dead...
...father, who was persuaded into the Democratic Party after he heard William Jennings Bryan speak. As a prizewinning debater and bright student in high school and college (University of Minnesota '39), he acquired a volubility and an oratorical flourish that have stuck with him through the years. A victim of the Depression (he was forced to quit college for six years when his family's fortunes hit rock bottom, finally worked his way through school as a part-time janitor and drugstore clerk), and a witness of the dust storms that scourged South Dakota in the 1930s, Humphrey...
...poison from the powdered bark of the ihumi tree and, gathering all the villagers to drink, spikes the suspect's cup with his lethal potion. After four drinks, the suspected witch must walk or run through the village, to spread the poison through his body. If the victim vomits the poison and does not die. he is declared innocent of the charges; if not, his body is left on a small platform of reeds outside the village for a day, and then cremated in a gasoline-soaked shroud suspended between trees, while the rest of the village watches from...
...through a garbage can," and he has made enemies among those who scavenge there. Driving home one night, Lacson was nearly killed by a burst of carbine fire. He has twice disarmed gunmen who attacked him and is fatalistically prepared to end either as President of the Philippines or victim of an assassin. "My father was murdered," says Lacson, "and my grandfather was killed by slipping on a cake of soap. I may go either...
...wrote The Rebel in 1956, picturing man as the victim of a political and social world in which even his saviors seek to debase and enslave him. But he required that man revolt. He himself participated in the French underground during World War II, and in 1957 he quoted the words of Richard Hilary: "We were fighting this lie in the name of a half-truth." But he went on to say" "There are even occasions when a lie must be fought in the name of a quarter-truth. The quarter-truth...is called freedom. And freedom is the road...