Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mountains near Nanking, amid the wreckage of a transport plane, a charred body lay. A scrap from a woolen sweater, a bodyguard's pistols, the testimony of a grief-stricken aide identified the fire-eaten remains as those of General Tai Li, one of China's most mysterious, most respected and most dreaded men. There was no official announcement of his death. But Lieut. General Cheng Chieh-min, 47, the Government's Moscow-educated G-2 chief, was named to succeed Tai Li as head of China's secret police...
...helicopters will flutter down to take samples of the atom-stirred water. Then six small gunboats, also with Geiger counters, will approach the dread lagoon, sampling the water and reporting by radio. Next, a swarm of 20 launches, manned by raincoated scientists, will scoot like water bugs among the stricken ships. Finally, if all pioneers report that the coast is clear, the Navy's Bureau of Ships, its medical units, and its associated scientists will enter Bikini Lagoon to see what the Model-T bomb has done to the U.S. Navy...
...both stricken cities a few Japanese under shelter survived the heat and blast, only to die later from the invisible gamma rays. Striking through thick concrete, the rays disintegrated their blood cells, allowing raging infections to spread through their bodies (TIME...
...April 1945 he flew from California to Washington. Franklin Roosevelt had died. George walked into the presence of a stricken Harry Truman, bowed and said solemnly: "Mr. President." Since that moment, the lawyer of Okolona has sat at Harry Truman's right hand...
Died. Feliks Nowowiejski, 68, first-rank conductor and patriot composer of Poland's national hymn, Rota,* who was stricken in 1942, while a Nazi captive, with complete, permanent paralysis; in Poznan...