Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the hungry and stricken land there rose once more the deep-throated roar of Jacques ("The Great") Doriot...
...Stricken visitors hurry on, only to find themselves in a dark corridor where the hands of a big clock whirl madly and a voice cries over & over: "The task is long -the time is short...
Despite obstacles and the difficulties of getting supplies, Jones affirmed that the work of feeding the famine-stricken children of Europe would be carried on to the greatest extent possible with the limited supplies at hand and that after the end of the war there would be an even greater role to play in the rehabilitation of Europe...
...tactful, well-bred," crepe-hung women sent by the solicitous French Government to break the news to the next of kin when soldiers were killed in action. The women must "neither be attractive enough to take men's thoughts away from grief nor ugly enough to scare the stricken children." Later Madame Berthelot worked in the passport bureau. There she owed her promotion from a hard to an easy job to her second cousin by marriage, a petty official called The Navet (Turnip). He got her promoted by "culling evidence of a particularly rare pastime to which...
...Geneva Convention of 1929, belligerents are required to return home seriously wounded prisoners, regardless of man-for-man exchange.) Italy knew better than to make such a demand-she was to get back more prisoners than she gave up. Off to Alexandria sailed 66 stricken British soldiers, 63 medical personnel captured in Greece; to Italy went 250 sick and wounded Italians captured in Ethiopia and East Africa...