Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Demos was stricken with coronary thrombosis on Sunday, January 29, and has been in the Faulkner Clinic in Brookline since then. He is not expected to leave the clinic before June...
...would die of tuberculosis in a few months, he went to Switzerland with her. Earlier that year he had written The Final Problem, in which he drowned Holmes in a waterfall. The consequence was one of the bitterest, most ironic episodes in his life: as he sat beside his stricken wife, enraged readers showered him with savage letters, and mourned the dead Holmes by wearing crepe hatbands. Mrs. Doyle improved for a time, and her husband built her an elaborate house in the south of England...
Father Franz Joseph was more furious than grief-stricken when he heard the news. Years before, a tailor had tried to kill him, and ever since he had used the word "tailor" to describe anything that he considered utterly contemptible. So now he shrieked: "My son died like a tailor!" -and proceeded to suppress the story. Mary Vetsera was buried secretly. As for Rudolph: "His Imperial and Royal Highness [has] died suddenly of heart failure," said the Court communiqu...
...University or its representatives, and his schemes were seldom disguised or minimized. At various times he wanted to change the name of Harvard Square to Washington Square, he tried to ban several "Communist-tinged" student productions, and he introduced a council resolutions to have the words "Lenin" and "Leningrad" stricken from all printed matter in Cambridge...
...time a week from tomorrow at the Arena, the chances are that Tom Moseley will be back on the ice with his second line teammates Miles Huntington and Dave Abbot. This line, which has operated together for the past two seasons, was broken up last month when Moseley was stricken with a case of chicken...