Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very outset of the Congress on Dec. 2, I emphasized the heavy obligation of private capital not only to cooperate with Government in the immediate post-war relief of stricken areas, but to assume major responsibility for long-term economic rehabilitation here and abroad...
Along the streams of the Amazon system that cut through the green, matted jungle, more than 14,000 Brazilians from drought-stricken areas were seeking a new world last week. Like the old pioneers of North America, they were the first of a great army marching westward to open an untouched land. The treasure they were seeking was one of World War II's most precious-rubber...
...Royal Arsenal with flames that licked so high that the crimson reflection shimmered on the snowy peaks of the Alps. Back again the next night, they dropped more two-ton bombs into the smoldering ruins. At week's end they returned again, to make their 26th raid on stricken Turin...
Only a hundred men could get a chance to strain their abdomens, Conditioner Clarke said. Immediately the plaintive cries rang out from the multitude, but all was well, "Go home," said Clarke, you'll get credit anyway. And so the awe-stricken students field out, unhealthy but happy...
...middle of a coastwise convoy of six cargo ships and three small naval vessels. Away went the sub's torpedoes and down went two Jap merchantmen. Klakring let his crew take a look through the periscope at "this very pretty sight." When the other Jap ships, panic-stricken, turned and raced for the shore, Klakring surfaced and gave chase. He dogged one ship into a cove and plumped a torpedo into her middle. It was a lucky hit at long range. But, said Klakring, a soft-spoken Marylander, "If I had missed her I would have hit a large...