Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressional Record read "goddamned liar" before the words were stricken from it, but Hook swore he had not used profanity...
...Ambassador Alexander Kirk, smartly correct in dress and speech, was with them. Catholic Mr. De Gaspari's Communist Under Secretary, Eugenio Reale, was not. In halting English, Minister De Gaspari asked when his stricken country would get economic relief, whether there was any chance of an early German armistice. As the Vatican's No. 1 lay politico, he also asked: what about Russia? Harry Hopkins listened in friendly silence, answered no questions...
Everything We Have. "We have sacrificed everything in this war. We shall emerge from it for the time being more stricken and impoverished than any other victorious country...
Three weeks ago startled network officials heard frustrated Bill Goodwin sing out his sign-off ("This is CBS ... the Columbia . . . Broadcasting . . . System") in a rapidly rising whine that broke into a high, hysterical giggle. Fortnight ago he concluded it with a stricken "OUCH!" Last week, he added a single, unsavory "Ughh...
Kweiyang ordered evacuation of all nonessential workers; all U.S. and British citizens were ordered to leave Kweichow province; thousands of misery-stricken refugees were pouring out of Kweichow into the Szechwan bastion beyond Chungking...