Word: victimizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sharpest manifestation, the virus sets off an encephalitis (brain inflammation) so severe that it may cause death -or, worse, such sweeping damage that the victim survives only as an idiot or at the level of a vegetable. How many such cases there are is not known...
Though a Soviet cruiser radioed last week that it was joining the search, U.S. military men wondered whether the SAC plane was yet another victim of the cold war's silent battle in the skies...
...Luck. In Nottingham, England, after stealing a porcelain Japanese luck charm from the house they were painting, Artisans Harry James and Douglas Harding took it to a nearby antique shop for appraisal, were arrested when the dealer turned out to be the home owner and theft victim...
While his pals sang, young George Senyk, 15, quietly slipped away. His counselors had designated him a "victim" for a training exercise. His orders were to wade to a small island some 400 yards off the river shore and "act like I was sick" until senior scouts arrived to save him. But George discovered that the river-shallow enough when the counselors had tested it that morning-had risen dangerously. Its swift current was washing a tricky pattern of gulleys and holes in the sandy bottom. A weak swimmer, he wisely decided to wade ashore and hunt up another, safer...
...field of transplants, the great target is the heart. Some victims of atherosclerotic coronary disease (the leading killer in the U.S. today) might be saved if they could receive a transplant of a healthy heart from, say, a traffic accident victim. Infants with certain inborn heart defects would have a chance of survival...