Word: victor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parked car blocked the dirt road to the burning hilltop home of Dr. Victor Ohta. Leaving his pickup truck, Soquel, Calif., Assistant Fire Chief Ernest Negro ran to the house to find "the roof was really going." As the local fire trucks screamed up to the main entrance, Negro looked and found that it also was blocked by Dr. Ohta's maroon Rolls-Royce. "I felt awfully funny for a second," Negro recalls. "Somebody seemed determined to prevent anybody from getting near the fire. If I knew then what I know now, I would have gotten out fast...
...other hand, M.I.T. professor of Physics Victor F. Weisskopf said that he had never met the Senator and that he was stirred by the campaign issue of the war in Vietnam. Weisskopf
...have two daughters at the Sorbonne, and their friends thought it a great joke to say, 'What a father you've got!' " On top of that, he added, "Alexander Portnoy and I are both Jewish." Worst of all, Portnoy's business partner is named Victor Branli, and branler is the French slang verb for masturbate. Branli, too, was unsettled. "Personally," he said, "I'd rather the confusion was with a Bluebeard than with a Portnoy...
...days of Peter the Great, who coveted the warm water ports of the Mediterranean. Though the Kremlin has soft-pedaled the Communist imperative to spread the red flag wherever possible, such ideological expansion continues to affect Soviet conduct. The most important element in the Soviet thrust, as British Kremlinologist Victor Zorza notes, is that "the Soviets are a great power, and they want the facilities that go with great-power status." Those facilities include not only markets for Soviet industry and sources of raw materials, but also the fleets, bases, and other concrete symbols needed to establish influence beyond...
...resulting perception can only be understated in words: I knew with incredible clarity that life is the victor in the struggle against death, not in the sense of an afterlife in a faraway heaven, but in the certainty that life is eternal, despite death. I was overcome with the joy of this truth, and I wanted to run out on the street and shout it to the New Yorkers plodding homeward in the gray smog from their dull downtown offices, unaware that a sea of beauty, life and love surrounded and sustained them...