Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi bombing planes would have strafed it mercilessly. If they could have wrecked its essential services by perhaps a fortnight of intensive bombing-wrecked its communications, its power supply, its waterworks and sanitary facilities until plague stalked the streets and 10,000,000 human beings were thrown into horror-stricken disorder-the British Government might have been forced to make peace even at the cost of surrendering the proud British fleet...
...Poverty-stricken migrants, chiefly from Oklahoma (thus "Okies"), to California's promised land, where they worked as itinerant harvest hands, lived in filthy squatters' camps. The name is now applied to all refugee workers from the Southwest and Midwest dustbowls. For further information on California's migrant workers' woes and big land-grabbing agriculturists, see Factories in the Field by Carey McWilliams (Little, Brown, $2.50), out last month...
Last week DuBose Heyward, who made his literary reputation by sympathetic studies of Negro life in his native South Carolina (Porgy, Mamba's Daughters), did his sympathetic best by the poverty-stricken Negroes of the Virgin Islands...
Queerest air tragedy of recent months was the crack-up of No. 1 Mexican Airman Francisco ("Pancho") Sarabia in Washington last June. One moment his stubby Gee Bee Special, the Q.E.D. was winging smoothly above the Potomac River; the next, downfluttering like a stricken hawk, it rammed its nose fast in the river bottom. By the time rescuers reached him, Sarabia was drowned. Shaken by the loss of their idol, Mexican mobs growled darkly of sabotage...
...belief that the only man Sonja Henie has ever really been interested in was Jack Dunn, the handsome 19-year-old Cambridge undergraduate aviator who was her fellow-skater and constant companion on her 1936 tour, had a movie contract in his pocket when he was fatally stricken with tularemia last This year she took up with one Bob Shaw, a $50-a-week Fox stock boy (extra). To public curiosity about her private life, Sonja Henie is about as impervious as Greta Garbo. Says she: "I am too busy to get married. I have too much to do. Anyway...