Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stricken by a malignant form of tuberculosis, the vice president of the International Union of Student was reported yesterday as slowly regaining his health through the prompt action of the Council and Dr. Arlie V. Bock '15 of the Hygiene Department. Dr. Bock, in cooperation with the National Intercollegiate Christian Council and the Boston Red Cross arranged for a second shipment of 62 grams of the rare drug to Ellis...
Fortnight ago the heads of American Airlines faced an embarrassing task-explaining why one of their DC-45 had gone into a violent dive, on a clear, calm day near El Paso, had flown upside down, and dumped 48 fear-stricken passengers* out of their seats. After some consideration they decided not to talk at all. But last week the Civil Aeronautics Board revealed the simple, if startling, truth. The whole thing had been a, witless practical joke...
...unidentified, the two sympathizers of state economic planning will reply in the following issue of the Review. The conclusions of the report picture the U.S.S.R. as a poverty-stricken nation with an average standard of living slightly better than one sixth the American level...
Edward G. Seidensticker, enroute to the University from Denver, underwent an emergency appendectomy in Hartford, Connecticut yesterday after having been stricken ill shortly after his plane left Cleveland. His condition last night was reported as good...
With better luck, it might have been his ' third or fourth title. Big Jake thinks that he is playing no better now than he did in 1942, the year he swept through ten straight tournaments and was stricken with appendicitis on the eve of Forest Hills. The next year it was ptomaine poisoning. In the 1944 and 1945 seasons, he was off on Coast Guard duty. He talks about it as though it happened to somebody else and was all a big joke...