Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yuletide food conservation reaches into every corner of the University today when bread and butter are stricken from all means and the Medical School pushes forward plans for a more far-reaching calory-saving program similar to that defeated recently in the College...
Soprano Marjorie Lawrence, who made a wheelchair comeback in 1942 after being stricken with polio, prepared to come back a little more this week. After months of practice she would sing standing-in Elektra in Chicago's Orchestra Hall-for the first time in six years...
...others because they possess a "special nervous sensibility." This not only makes them extraordinarily receptive to inspiration, but the intervals between inspirations afflict them with a neurotic sense of "loneliness . . . failure and pathetic incompetence." When inspired, "almost all creative writers have at some moments of their lives been panic-stricken by the conviction that their imagination was getting the better of their reason. . . . The God visits them, not amicably, but in a flash of flame and fire." In Shakespeare's phrase: "Such tricks hath strong imagination...
Reports of an outbreak of internal upsets, which nervous Freshmen laid to Lima beans served in the Monday evening Union meal, dribbled in from the Yard last night, but Dr. Andrew W. Contratto, physician in the Department of Hygiene, declared that no stricken undergraduates had turned up at Stillman Infirmary...
Thirty-seven representatives of University departments as unrelated as Astronomy and Economies, with a sprinkling of five deans, yesterday endorsed speedy aid to stricken Europe and the accompanying anti-inflation measures proposed by President Truman in his message to Congress on Tuesday...