Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fling. Warmed by the success of his maiden speech as Leader of the Commons (TIME, March 9), the Red Squire last week begged the United Nations to snuggle more closely into bed. "After the victory," he said, "let us remain in the same gallant company to rebuild a stricken world upon the foundations of justice and equality that will secure for us, for them and for all the people of the world a happier, saner and more peaceful future...
...grief-stricken wife who has just killed her husband and are weeping buckets, hold that pose & hurry over to the Hillman Publications who will...
...divulged in open court, would show that on May 10, 1940 France had only seventeen 90-mm. anti-aircraft guns, that there were boots for only 3,000,000 French poilus, when 4,500.000 pairs were needed. This was recrimination with a snarl. It was no news to stricken France. Over their rationed wine the oldsters nodded their heads at an editorial in Le Temps...
...here & there, in back pages of the newspapers, little items said eloquently that the U.S. was still the U.S. In Colorado a 16-year-old lad braved frozen hands and feet to help haul a toboggan eight miles through snowdrifts on an 8,000-ft. mountain, rescue a pneumonia-stricken rancher. A lad crippled by two bone operations, tuberculosis of the hip, pneumonia, ptomaine poisoning, appendicitis, graduated at the head of his Manhattan high-school class...
...shipment of 8,000 tons of grain which the Allies plan to send to their stricken ally is just a token. In Greece, as elsewhere in Occupied Europe, no one can be sure that relief supplies will not be grabbed by the Axis. Explained Mr. Dalton bitterly: "There is no guarantee, nor would we pay any attention to one given by the Germans. We are in this case running a risk in view of the appalling conditions caused by the Germans in Greece...