Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street hurled his body into the air. He was killed and his falling body seriously injured a passing postman. Almost at the same moment, Bam! another blast ripped open a street half a mile away. Bam! a third blew up the pavement a few hundred yards further on. Terror-stricken early risers, certain they were being bombed from the air, grabbed gas masks issued during the CzechoSlovak Crisis and rushed into the streets...
...book had been dedicated in these words. "To Mr. Justice Cardoza, rightful successor of Mr. Justice Holmes." Professor Frankfurter sent a specially stricken copy of this dedication to the death bed of the man whom he was named to succeed yesterday...
...that night the Schodack circled the stricken Norwegian, Skipper Clifton Smith pouring out oil to smooth the way for another lifeboat. In the early morning one of the Smaragd's boats made it with seven men. Then the Schodack lowered a second boat, reached the Smaragd and took off the captain and his family, the rest of the crew, two pet dogs. Radioing his owners, the Cosmopolitan Shipping Co., Inc., Captain Smith was brief and businesslike. "It was tough going. . . . We will need a new lifeboat...
Those who sensed quickly what had happened rolled off the cars. Frozen to their seats with shock and fear, the others held on until it was too late. Faster, faster, faster rolled the rake, rocking crazily as it gathered speed. Panic-stricken miners flung themselves over the side. Some were bounced off the bedrock walls, hurled under the wheels of the rear cars as they whizzed past. A few miners grabbed at a heavy, covered power line which ran along the roof of the low shaft and hung on, knees pulled high to clear the rows of seats, until...
...present there are 29 students stricken, although only 15 are in Stillman. The others are in Boston hospitals, or recuperating at home. The infirmary reported 46 cases to date; there were only 38 all last year...