Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Compared with [the] British program, the U.S. Army is culturally and educationally poverty-stricken...
...maximum program that the U.S. can undertake is to help stricken nations until they can get their own crops planted and harvested. This help must include food to prevent starvation. But the emphasis will be on seed, fertilizer, machinery...
...Panic. The aftermath of Hamburg was a great fear throughout the Reich. Refugees streamed from the stricken city, spread tales of horror. German propagandists had once spoken gloatingly of the destruction which their Luftwaffe visited on British cities; they could find no words now to quell the rising terror of their people under the Allied bombs. The Völkischer Beobachter, official organ of the Nazi Party, wrote: "The whole Reich and the largest cities are within reach of enemy planes. Nobody underestimates the imminence of danger." Reich Marshal Hermann Göring, who once said: "If a single bomb...
Henry L Stimson recalled the stricken faces of young officers who met him when he stepped from a plane in Newfoundland: they had heard a rumor that the personage arriving on the plane was Hedy Lamarr...
Republicans, shot while napping, clutched hands to pain-stricken breasts. Cried New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges: "[The President] dangled before the eyes of the soldiers a gift of their own tax money. . . ." Cried Pennsylvania's Congressman J. William Ditter: "[The President's speech] degenerated into the official opening of the fourth term campaign...