Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flew Brigadier General Ralph Snavely, whose wife was in the crashed plane, but for six hours bad weather obscured his approach to the Jungfrau. "Then," said an aide, "it was as if the Lord pushed the clouds away for a few moments." Through a rift they spotted the stricken Dakota, cushioned in the snow. Medical supplies, brandy and food were dropped near a red flag laid out on the glacier. In the next 24 hours, so many packages were dropped that a Swiss plane asked Americans to stop, lest they hit survivors or another plane. Those on the glacier...
...head of this segment of the stricken coal industry, Edward R. Burke, told a reporter that "a very considerable number of coal companies" had filed applications with the government to slap individual fines of $1 and $2 a day for every day that a miner stays out. The amount would vary under the contract by regions...
...Cummings, who had been stricken with tonsillitis a few days before the Dartmouth contest, made his first practice appearance in ten days, and was used with the "B" team. He bolstered an end squad that is now minus the services only of George Hauptfuhrer, who was banged up against the Indians and is not expected to play on Saturday...
There were other signs of unrest in Spain. The New York Herald Tribune's William Attwood got into the antiCommunist, anti-Franco northern Basque provinces last week, found "a facade of order and prosperity that would deceive a casual tourist, a poverty-stricken land where a man who dares to say what he thinks is thrown into jail-or worse...
With the opening of offices in Boston tomorrow, CARE will present the opportunity to contribute to the welfare of stricken individuals and organizations by sending Army surplus "10 in 1" rations to specific desthiations at a cost of $10 each...