Word: victimizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Nkosi appears to be a victim of the "oppressive racist policies" of the south African Government, which "penalize their critics, especially if they're black Africans," Lyons noted. White students, he pointed out, have been allowed to leave the country...
...Surprise attack undoubtedly has its advantages . . . However, the opportunity of an answering blow remains. [Thus] nuclear war is not only extraordinarily dangerous for the victim, but it is also suicide for the aggressor himself." ¶ "Local wars were possible [in past centuries] . . . War, in reality, has become either a prelude to world war, or, in its own way, the end of world...
...interested in a portrait of the self-sacrificing mother and her husband, said Mrs. Hahn. As for that episode in magistrate's court, she had taken her daughter there on a rabbi's advice because the girl had fallen in with a bad crowd and was the victim of a "fraudulent ring" of thugs...
...stronger feeling for the rights of the criminal. Why? Perhaps partly. Author Lewis suggests, because of his own youthful delinquency. In Chippy's obituary, one of his legal colleagues feelingly phrased the thought: "As he stood at the bar of the court, pleading for some victim of fortune's scourge, he seemed to acknowledge at least part of the guilt in being a member of a society which permitted children to grow up in sordid slums, amid ugliness, vice and crime . . . He was more than a public defender. His attitude was almost that of co-defendant...
Inside the hall, the mood was saner, except when a well-aimed egg broke in the lap of the theologian on the platform, bringing from Steve Allen a drawn-out denunciation of "this coward who threw the egg and ran," and from the victim an assurance that the missile was not rotten...