Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Expert Samuel a back bencher of the Chancellor's own party (Conservative) arose and protested that a reduction should be made in the case of another of the new Churchill taxes, namely that on British-made cigaret lighters. Against this proposal Expert Samuel, determined to defend his influenza-stricken Chief, set his lips and remained firm. He was then indiscreetly approached by Colonial Secretary Colonel Leopold C. M. S. Amery (strong, speechless man of the Cabinet), who whispered in his ear. At the conclusion of this dramatic whispering Expert Samuel reversed his decision of a moment before and consented...
Ernest Bloch's symphony Israel, as played last week by the Cleveland Orchestra in Manhattan, was full of the woes of "a pious and sinful people." Full of fear of Jehovah, despair of stricken souls, anguished groping for light, the music was illustrated upon the vast stage by figures in tan and black flowing robes. Men of the priestly order (among them Dancer Michio Ito), mourning women bearing lighted candles, suppliants in prayer shawls, a pilgrim, the Ba'al Tokea, moved against the austere background of the enormous Wailing Wall of Jerusalem, achieved the spirit of Isaiah crying...
...Lorimer listened, hand cupped to ear. Members jumped up to remonstrate with Mr. Schafer. Mr. Sproul of Illinois demanded that Mr. Schafer's words be stricken from the record. Mr. Schafer refused. A knot of members surrounded Mr. Schafer while his remarks were being transcribed by the clerk. Finally "to save time" Mr. Schafer withdrew what he had said...
...days after the Fall River fire (TIME, Feb. 13), he and Louis Kroh Liggett, president of the United Drug Co. and director of a dozen other important New England industries, decided that, as long as they intended to "rejuvenate" some New England community, they should begin with stricken Fall River. Mr. Loring put investigators to work, who soon found that Fall River cotton mill owners were in the mood for merging and refinancing. Such action required banking facilities, which Fall River lacked...
Identical twins on the contrary are as alike mentally as physically whenever they are brought up together. Psychiatric literature is full of the case histories of identical twins stricken by the same psychoses at the same time. They have the same hallucinations, hear the same voices, suffer from the same delusions. No single instance has been found of one twin going insane while the other remained sane. Sometimes this has been shown to be the result of association, and separation in the ward has brought about changes in the character of the dementia. Would each have gone...