Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Profit. Eire's new Prime Minister John A. Costello abandoned Irish Airlines' plan to begin transatlantic service next week between Shannon and New York. Reason: the subsidies for the service were too high for Eire's poverty-stricken government...
...Reese's pottery workers learned how to build. Men & women worked at a flat $1 an hour, many for 48 hours a week. The women's clubs served meals on the job. The Quonset buildings went up four times as fast as they had even in disaster-stricken Texas City...
Democracy's "supporting in idleness" of inefficient, poverty-stricken individuals who should never have been born is an additional threat to the crumbling world, according to Hooton...
Early rumors that a conscience-stricken Councilman would attempt to break the filibuster were squelched by an ugly counter-rumor that he wouldn...
...purchases over $700, were only 2% of the total. . . Of all these services, 78.6% were under $399.00. . . .Every funeral director will agree that our main problem is not trying to sell $2,500 services (if there is such a thing) but rather to convince grief-stricken families to buy within their means and not allow sorrow or sentiment to influence them in a choice they may later regret...