Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctor was aboard when a sailor on a U.S. submarine was stricken with acute appendicitis somewhere in the South Pacific. But a member of the crew-the chief pharmacist's mate-had once witnessed an appendectomy. "It was operate or certain death," wrote Lieut. Franz Hoskins to his family in Tacoma (Wash.) last week, "for the patient's temperature was 106°." So, with the help of the ship's commander and two machinist's mates, Lieut. Hoskins administered the anesthetic and the pharmacist's mate bravely cut open the patient, located and removed...
Billy Lovett stopped minding his own business after one of his Suwanee Fruit & Steamship Co.'s three freighters (outmoded World War I destroyers which he converted into banana ships) happened upon the stricken La Paz, towed her toward shore. A mile and a half off Cocoa, Fla. she sank in the mud and Government engineers despaired of salvaging her. But Lovett, with a $500,000 salvage claim against her owner, decided to heed the call of "patriotism and profit." At the U.S. marshal's sale, he bought her (for $10,000), set out to float her again...
...trail of the old Peking-Hankow railway. The Government has placed a free train daily for refugee disposal along the Lunghai railway, which is carrying out 1,500 people every 24 hours. But the jammed cars, stuffed with clinging, clambering people, are evacuating only a portion of the stricken hordes. Four or five thousand people daily are setting out on the westward march along the line...
...whether the alleged rape had happened with her consent: "With my consent? Why, of course with my consent." Said District Attorney Dockweiler: "It doesn't matter whether she consented to these acts or not. She's under age. That's statutory rape under California law." Hatless, stricken Errol Flynn denied the story said: "I'm bewildered. I can't understand it. I hardly touched the girl." Said Sportsman McEvoy: "He was hardly out of my sight the whole evening...
...faced, bullnecked, roughshod William L. Ayers, managing editor of the Chicago Journal of Commerce (circ. 24,000), knew the time had come. Draft-stricken, he was going to have to hire women. He was going to have to hire women copyreaders...