Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago the long-suppressed resentment of Poland's 20,000,000 virtually disenfranchised, illiterate, poverty-stricken peasants against tyrannical army rule rumbled into action. The Peasant Party- forced underground by the reactionary army coterie around the late Marshal Joseph Pilsudski-emerged into the open, called a 10-day peasant strike which last week was in full swing...
...would have died save for the devoted ministrations of a dog. Roch died in his 30s, was identified by a red cross which, according to tradition, had been on his breast at birth. Roman Catholics came to believe God had given Roch the power of healing the plague-stricken, and he was canonized even before the city of Constance was delivered from cholera in 1414 by prayers for his intercession. Last week brought the feast (Aug. 16) of St. Roch and in Pittsburgh was commemorated what Catholics believe to have been a miracle as ineffable as any the saint invoked...
...Catholics of St. Michael's parish on the South Side, who addressed their supplications to St. Roch and the Blessed Virgin, vowing that if they were spared they would devote a day to the two every year forever.* Not a single parishioner of St. Michael's was stricken then or in the second plague which swept Pittsburgh...
...some 25 ft. above the highway at the south end of the field, there were three rending crashes, whop! when the ship slammed full-tilt into a foot-thick pine power pole, crack! when the motors ripped out and thudded to earth, and smash! when the rest of the stricken plane bashed into a palmetto thicket. There was a spurt of flame from one motor, then silence...
...themselves, and last week in picturesquely worded communiques they "repulsed the barbarians who tried to cut off our garrison and airport at Nan-Yuan, driving them off with our broad-swords." During this engagement two small Japanese shells burst just inside Peiping's Yungting Gate, but panic-stricken Chinese peasants continued to flee in from the countryside...