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Word: stricken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the Bow Street birdcage was shaken by the sudden illness of perennial hurler Clem Woop, stricken with an acute attack of two-line gagging. "I've got the inside track now," smirked Lionel (The Toy) Train, roundhouse-righthander, who vowed he had never been cornered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Cringes As 'Poonsters Double-Deal | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

...summoned the entire population (about 2,000) to the main square. The men were led away and machine-gunned. Under the heaps of dead, eleven survived. The women & children were locked in a schoolhouse which, along with the rest of Kalavryta, was put to the torch. A horror-stricken Austrian soldier unbolted the schoolhouse door and some women escaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Beautiful Springs | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Colombo, a Navy veteran, was pitched into the water when an carlock on his single scull snapped, thus turning the whole boat bottom up. He pushed the stricken craft to the shore, righted it, and, refusing all offers of assistance, paddled home to the Weld Boat House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Upset Scull Fails To Faze Oarsman | 4/22/1948 | See Source »

...candidate who knows of or authorizes violations of these provisions shall be stricken from the ballot, or shall suffer invalidation of his election...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: Council Calls for Re-Vote on NSA Candidates; Faculty Group Reiterates Ban on New Student | 4/21/1948 | See Source »

Honor this man, so stricken in his prime, So shattered in his life's most kindling years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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