Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abandon Communism, however, and returned to New York. He had met and married a young labor organizer and painter named Esther Shemitz. They set up housekeeping in a poverty-stricken tenement on the East Side...
...explosion had wrecked the ship's radio. It was three hours before the SS Hwafoo discovered the stricken ship, four hours before the Hwafoo's SOS brought rescue vessels. When the SS Mouli pulled alongside, a Kiangya officer quieted the clamor of the terrified survivors by warning them, "Don't shout, or they will think there are too many...
Cabot Hall reported that earlier in the week almost 10 percent of the girls were stricken...
...McDuffie, announced: "It is our belief that they [the Klan] are not guilty of shooting Mallard." But he gave no basis to reporters for charging Mrs. Mallard. Dumfounded and hysterical, the widow screamed again that men in white robes had killed her husband. Released without bond, she fled terror-stricken into the woods, shivered all night in a rainstorm, finally found sanctuary with Savannah friends...
...Breckinridge reads with difficulty and wears dark glasses to guard her own eyes from glare. Twenty-six years ago she was stricken with glaucoma, an eye disease that often causes blindness. While waiting for her eyes to heal after an operation she began to wonder what she could do for her surgeon, the late Dr. William Holland Wilmer. She raised nearly $5,000,000 among his patients to establish the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute at Johns Hopkins. Four years ago a group of Manhattan eye surgeons asked her to help start the eye bank. She is now executive director...