It seems to be indispensable to the national self-esteem that the Negro be considered either as a kind of ward ( in which case we are told how many Negroes, comparatively, bought Cadillacs last year and how few, comparatively, were lynched ), or as a victim ( in which case we are promised that he will never vote in our assemblies or go to school with our kids ).

Co-penned by Linda Perry, the song offers a rare glimpse into the mind of a woman who, for the last 15 years, has been as famous for being a rock star as she's been for being a victim.

* 1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.

However, they would fall victim to the Dallas Cowboys in week 14, going on to end the season with a 3 game losing streak ( Saints became the first team to win a Super Bowl after losing its last three regular season games ).

Falk turned in a gem of a performance as one of two cabbies who falls victim to greed in the epic 1963 star-studded comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, even though he appears only in the last fifth of the movie.

* rima esdrúxula ( odd rhyme ): rhyme between proparoxitonic words ( example: última, " last ", and vítima, " victim ").

** Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden of Plainfield, Wisconsin, US.

The last experience his spirit undergoes before it " becomes God " is a view of Mary Kelly-the one intended victim who escaped-who is apparently able to see his spirit and abjures him to begone " back to Hell ".

Piotr, only 46 survived the hardships of the expedition, which claimed its last victim just one day before coming into home port.

) Greg Myers of the California Angels was the last strikeout victim of Nolan Ryan ’ s career, on September 17, 1993.

The Shankill Butchers ' last victim was killed off Brookmount Street ( pictured ), where Lenny Murphy owned a house

* Kevin Cosgrove-A victim of the September 11th terrorist attacks whose infamous 9-1-1 call and last words were recorded.

* Phil Coe ( 1839 – 1871 ), well-known saloon owner and Old West gambler, and the last known gunfight victim of " Wild Bill " Hickok.

Without those, the broken man could last hours and even days, during which birds could peck at the hapless victim.

Davidson says that loaves of this type may take the place of an animal sacrifice or animal victim, such as the boar-shaped loaf baked at Yule in Sweden, and that in Värmland, Sweden " within living memory " grain from the last sheaf was customarily used to bake a loaf into the shape of a little girl that is subsequently shared by the whole household.

Baley and Olivaw's last case together is one on Aurora, in The Robots of Dawn, where the victim of the murder is a humanoid robot, Jander, who is physically an exact likeness of R. Daneel Olivaw.

Crime writer Colin Wilson speculates the Axeman could have been Joseph Momfre, a man shot to death in Los Angeles in December, 1920 by the widow of Mike Pepitone, the Axeman's last known victim ".

That short 1947 hop of the " Flying Lumberyard " was to be its last, however ; it became a victim of post-war cutbacks and the disappearance of its intended mission as a transatlantic transport.

In an opinion poll of New York City residents taken the month after the shootings, more than half of those surveyed said crime was the worst thing about living in the city ; about a quarter said they or a family member had been a victim of crime in the last year ; and two-thirds said they would be willing to pay for private security for their building or block.

The last high-profile victim of the climate of suspicion was Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh, who was executed on 1 July 1681.

A World Jewish Congress delegation meets with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, June 2008As the Jewish community dwindled, over successive waves of emigration ( the last in 1968 ), the WJC saw Poland as an important repository of Jewish history as well as the custodians of the killing grounds in which much of European Jewry fell victim to the German Final Solution.

Also features Barbara Wintergreen reporting on Chapman Baxter being executed by the reanimated corpse of his last victim, and Alan Partridge riding with a female rally driver.

But two years later, in 1040, Hezekiah, who was the last exilarch and also the last gaon, fell a victim to calumny.

That girl last night, what was her name??

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.

My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.

Fortunately the hole was found at last and plugged.

At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.

`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.