Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Through the morning and afternoon, the trucks were leapfrogged, until everybody had had his dose. One man. just out of the hospital at Camp Forrest, Tenn., soon fell out, was trucked into Camp Robinson. During the day about twelve others fell out, were picked up. The stragglers and heat-stricken took emergency treatment from a dentist and a sanitary officer who were also being disciplined. The rest ate plenty of salt against the heat, filled their canteens silently at wayside towns, while the citizenry eyed them with sympathy...
...Stricken. C.I.O.'s Philip Murray, 55; in Pittsburgh. He collapsed while playing badminton, was rushed to Mercy Hospital, where the illness was described evasively as "some kind of spell...
...floor, and a chicken leg came to rest on his trim grey head. >> John L Lewis' maid refused to sit in a Jim Crow seat, got arrested, said "Mr. Lewis will fix you for this." >> Representative Clare Hoffman (R., Mich.) asked that "applause" (to his speech) be stricken from the Congressional Record "because there was none." Speaker Sam Rayburn suggested making such omissions permanent and universal. >> Eleanor Roosevelt offered to refund her half of a $1,000 fee (shared by her agent) for speaking at a Burlington, Vt. hospital benefit because the fee wiped out the benefit...
...memoirs. ∙∙ Congress heard that Captain Jimmy Roosevelt was loading his chest with medals, raised its brows, learned he holds the Brazilian Order of the Southern Cross, the Dominican Order of Military Merit, the Belgian Order of the Crown. ∙∙ Secretary Henry L. Stimson, in a strike-stricken week, upped the War Department work week from 39 hours to 44 at the same pay. ∙∙ Vice President Henry A. Wallace stepped to bat in a charity softball game, nearly swung himself off his feet at a ball three feet wide of the plate, then made a comeback...
Died. Lou Gehrig, 38, "Iron Man of Baseball"; in Manhattan. Stricken two years ago with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (hardening of the spinal cord), the great, clean-living, slugging Yankee first baseman, son of a German-born janitor, had hung up the all-round record of baseball: 2,130 consecutive games (for 14 years he played in every Yankee game); more than 100 runs a year; a lifetime batting average...