Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word 'World Capital' is nothing but ambiguity . . . bloated with false deductions. . . . Confronting such a menace, the inhabitants of Connecticut, terror-stricken, took the bit between their teeth and flatly voted against the invasion of their domain. ... If the word 'Headquarters' brings to mind 'LIFE,' 'World Capital' brings to mind 'ACADEMISM.' And here we come to ... the very basis of the debate: ACADEMISM OR LIFE...
...Stricken during the day, Professor Cross was taken to the Cambridge City Hospital where he died at 4 o'clock of a heart attack. He had been seen at breakfast and on the street during the day, but had failed to attend one of his morning classes. He was 55 years...
Last month gloom deepened; Mabel disappeared. Gripp was grief-stricken. Then he too disappeared. In inner Tower circles it is suspected that Mabel's kidnapper kidnaped Gripp to keep her company. All over Britain farmers offered replacements...
...accepted. That is why I have to hide.' " Trefusis is a wealthy Socialist who disguises himself as a workman, lives in a gaudy ancestral mansion full of trapezes, plaster statues and carpenter's tools. He serves as a mouthpiece for Author Shaw, then a poverty-stricken young Socialist who wandered around London, a picture of "indescribable seediness," with a sharp eye cocked toward the future and the generation's best brains in his head...
...Stricken Building, Stricken Man. Believing that he was about to die, Elwes received the last sacraments. Instead, he slowly recovered. Over & over, during his recovery, the ruined man dreamed of the ruined abbey...