Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the one-man lobby was startled by his success. J. J. (for Jag jit) Singh, president of the India League of America, got through Congress an amendment which will permit famine-stricken India (pop. 389,000,000) to share in the largesse of the United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration. He had finally put through something that India's timid official delegate had not even dared to bring up at UNRRA's Atlantic City assemblage...
...could UNRRA move into India to feed the 750,000 Burmese refugees there, but not feed the hungry Indians alongside? Finally Republican Karl Mundt of South Dakota offered a last-minute amendment to the UNRRA bill: "Any area important to the military operations of the United Nations which is stricken by famine or disease may be included in the benefits." It breezed through. Then Singh moved over to the Senate...
Toronto's moderately Conservative Saturday Night, summed up Mr. Bracken's position: "His nightly prayer must be a desperate petition that his less restrainable followers be stricken dumb until the Halifax speech is forgotten. If they can only be kept quiet there is a possibility that the question of whether Canada should enter into a sort of consultative alliance with other nations of the Commonwealth may be considered in an atmosphere of reason, free from the exaggerations of an electoral campaign...
...Squeeze. Prices have skyrocketed because of blockade, crop failures, hoarding by merchants, officials and speculators. International relief agencies maintain 75 stations in the stricken area, but must pay prohibitive prices for what food they have...
...with Mary Pickford (chairman of the women's division of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) at Georgia's Warm Springs Foundation Hospital. A onetime French naval officer, Alain looked remarkably like his seadog father-whose 1942 dash from France to Algiers (where his son was first stricken) resulted in his collaboration with U.S. forces. President Roosevelt reportedly provided Alain's plane trip from North Africa to the Warm Springs Foundation Hospital several months after his father's death...