Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Down the great red expanse of her underside, men were sliding into the sea. Suddenly I felt a shock at the base of my spine. I knew it was a depth charge from a destroyer hunting the U-boat." Clinging to the float with other survivors, Thorpe watched the stricken Eagle go. "A rumbling as the sea poured relentlessly into the vessel . . . a flurry of white foam. It subsided and she was gone." A destroyer's crew plucked Thorpe out of the waves...
...cases where the pain had subsided, the Minneapolis workers showed Arkansas doctors how to exercise the children's stricken muscles. Several times a day they flexed them through a limited range of motion. No massage was used. By the time the first, contagious stage of the disease is over, this treatment should relieve all pain and stiffness...
...girdled the globe, run off a great flight in the Army's biggest plane (Boeing B15) with a gargantuan load of medical supplies for quake-stricken Chile. Yet Caleb Haynes is no chair polisher. He, too, rode out in front in every show he could make...
MOSCOW, Monday--Russian defenders of the Caucasus, fighting furiously all along the lower Don, have thwarted German attempts to storm across the river in force, a Soviet communique said today, but a Nazi assault army of 600,000 men and 2,000 tanks has driven deeper into stricken Rostov...
...Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. . . . And the Lord remembered Sarah as He had said. . . . And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age.-Genesis...