Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost a hundred districts had been officially declared stricken. The staple summer crop, corn, had failed and the country faced famine. At best the harvest could be no bigger than half the 22 million bags needed...
Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, away three and a half years from editing Manhattan's pinko tabloid PM, cast a returned-war-veteran's eye on his strike-stricken homeland, bubbled happily in his first editorial: "Everybody else seems terribly upset . . . and I discover I feel fine about it."' Reason for feeling fine: 1) the auto strikers' solidarity; 2) the "exciting new note of unity" in the telephone and wire strikes; 3) the lack of complacency among industrialists; 4) the homesick G.I.s' "refusal ... to be content with the malarkey." Summed up happy Veteran Ingersoll: "I am sorry...
...first-day headline: HE'S A GOOD BOY, SOBS G.I.'S MOTHER. A Page One picture was captioned: Grief-Stricken Parents. The news lead read: "A red, white & blue sign reading 'Welcome Home' hangs on the front door of the little frame home...
Divorced. Vincent Youmans, 47, star-crossed songwriter (Tea for Two, Time on My Hands, Without A Song) who was stricken at meridian (in 1934) with t.b. and has never fully recovered: by Mildred Boots Youmans, 40 ("I do not mind admitting it"), onetime Ziegfeld girl; after more than ten years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
Most awkward was the existence of the terror-stricken Jews themselves. Nightmares of the Hitlerian slaughter drove them on. In Poland sporadic anti-Jewish outbursts sped them. They filtered into the Allied-occupied zones of Germany...