Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year of armory drill and two weeks in summer camp, for three years; 5) enrollment in college R.O.T.C.s or in the Enlisted Reserve Corps at colleges, trade schools, etc., for courses in special techniques. The commission warned that the National Guard must be "far different" from the depleted, poverty-stricken organization it is today and must end its jurisdictional feud with the Organized Reserve...
...accident that ended in flaming death in a United Airlines DC-4 for all but six of its occupants. It was the worst airline accident in U.S. history-but there was a worse one before the sun had set again. Next evening a Florida-bound Eastern Airlines DC-4, stricken by structural failure, plunged out of a sunlit sky into a Maryland bog, and the lives of the 53 passengers and crew were snuffed out in the twinkling...
...George was "called" in 1850 to become minister of a dissenting chapel. But within two years, his deacons were grumbling that he had expressed belief in a future state of probation for heathens, and that he was tainted with German theology. Macdonald finally resigned to take up the poverty-stricken lecturing, preaching and writing at which he spent the rest of his 81 years...
...second time in three months a new U.S. ambassador has died on the day he was to leave for his new post: in February, North Carolina's Oliver Max Gardner was stricken in Manhattan the day he was to sail for the Court of St. James...
...Secretariat is hypersensitive about housekeeping details at Lake Success. The remarks were stricken from the official record...