Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their indignation. Vandenberg, sick of trying to demonstrate national unity in foreign policy when the Administration was so disunited, was thoroughly fed up. Editorialized the Baltimore Sun: "It will be almost impossible to repair [the Wallace-Truman blunder] unless these men show almost superhuman forbearance and stand by the stricken ship of nonpartisan policy." Connally and Vandenberg stood...
...true that the Republican Party here is poverty-stricken. Not a dime of this $175,000 Mr. Thomas talks about has been raised, nor is any of it in sight...
Except for an occasional murder, quiet returned to stricken Calcutta last week, but fear lingered. The death toll of last fortnight's Hindu-Moslem rioting, which may never be finally totaled, exceeded 4,000. While the city's poor went hungry, food rotted on loading platforms. Both Hindus and Moslems, afraid of hostile neighbors, jammed the huge Howrah railway station, mobbed the trains...
...Roman Catholic Church can speak with a united voice, if it will, in support of an agreed-upon interpretation of the Christian message to this stricken world. The Protestant problem is that of uniting its voice...
...million bushel wheat harvest, which would reduce her import needs from 70 million bushels in 1946 to a mere 20 million in 1947. Greece, Spain and Portugal hoped to raise grain production to approach their prewar levels. South Africa and Australia were expanding their wheat acreages. Argentina, drought-stricken last year, reported favorable crop conditions...