Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German press attacked him again-while he delayed Vichy's final fall, supplied the State Department with valuable information and made the best of a tough job. He returned stricken with grief, bringing with him the body of his wife, Louise, who had died after an operation. A mournful, lonely man, he settled down to write his reports, willing to finish his life in retirement...
...time in five years. The French First Army, on the right bank of the Rhine, captured Stuttgart and suddenly leaped south to the heavily guarded Swiss border, trapping some thousands of Germans in the Black Forest. The French also reached Lake Constance, not long after four boatloads of guilt-stricken Nazis had fled to the eastern end of the lake, where they could duck into the Alpine bastion. A few frantic latecomers, who reached the dock just as the last boat was pulling out, jumped into the water and tried to swim after...
...Wuppertal Police Chief Paul Kinkier, founding member of the Nazi Party. When U.S. soldiers caught up with him last week in an attic hideout at Nissmitz, he chose to die by taking poison in the best Wagnerian manner-but in a hurry and in a nightshirt. Cried his grief-stricken wife over his body: "My husband was a good man. I just couldn't control him." Then she admitted that her good man had shot twelve people...
...Senate Military Affairs Committee listened to the Army and approved a draft measure similar to one already passed by the House. If it did not go through, the committee warned, Congress would "fail our stricken combat soldiers...
...attack narrowed down to the main objective: poverty-stricken, malaria-ridden, snake-infested Okinawa, largest and staunchest rung in the Ryukyu ladder. Once firmly established on Okinawa, Americans could climb up the 370 miles to Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island, or climb down 365 miles to Formosa, potential springboard for landings in China...