Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blood flowed again last week on Lunga beach. "I was just standin' there," a stricken soldier moaned to his seconds, "when all of a sudden...
Despite some slow moments, "Going My Way" is certainly the best picture to have hit Boston in many months, and is, in a modest way, something of a revolution in movie-making. The story itself is of the simplest. To the poverty-stricken parish of Father Fitzgibbons comes Father O'Malley, ex-ballplayer (St. Louis Browns), ex-songwriter, who whips up a few hit tunes, pays off the mortgage, solves most of the local problems, including juvenile delinquency and generaly makes himself useful...
Adolph Hitler no longer was idolized as he was even a few months ago. The German people, expecting invasion, harried by bombs and grieving over the dead in Russia, resented the Führer's reluctance to visit stricken cities or the Eastern Front, his isolation in bomb-safe Berchtesgaden with chosen aides and such infrequent visitors as gaunt Benito Mussolini...
Shortly before noon, Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, commander of U.S. forces in the Philippines, left his headquarters on the stricken island. Wainwright walked towards his conquerors (reported Nichi Nichi's correspondent), carrying a white flag. He "slumped into a chair . . . head held in both hands, his eyes staring at the ground." When the victorious Japanese commander entered the room, "Wainwright and his aides stood up at rigid attention and saluted." Wainwright said that "he had come to talk surrender." It was Corregidor...
...were on strike, called out by C.I.O.'s Retail Employes Union.* The union claimed that 4,500 of the 5,500 union-eligible employes had walked out. Nonstriking employes going through picket lines were given the "Chicago cheer" by strikers (see cut). Ward's was mum, but stricken. A.F. of L. teamsters, in sympathy with the strikers, refused to pick up or deliver to the stores. The U.S. Post Office withdrew 30 idling mail clerks who normally handle Ward's outgoing mail-order business, second biggest in the U.S. (Net mail-order sales last year...