Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...especially lucky at wooing. At a charity ball during his sophomore year at Yale, he was stricken by the blue eyes and golden hair of pretty Evelyn Wadsworth, daughter of New York's wealthy Republican Senator (1915-27) James Wadsworth, granddaughter of Secretary of State (1898-1905) John Hay, great-granddaughter of General James Samuel Wadsworth, whose First Division held heroically firm on Gulp's Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg (where Symington's grandfather, William Stuart Symington I, fought on the Confederate side as a youthful captain...
...Devil's Advocate, by Morris West. An effective novel about a cancer-stricken priest who finds his first (and last) contact with life as he turns spiritual detective, investigates the lives of a possible saint and of the sinners involved in his death...
...spite of their new-found prosperity, the lame McGee and blind Sonny Terry sing and shout their blues with all the pathos of their poverty-stricken days in Carolina and Tenessee. They began with Midnight Special and Can't Stop Me Now Because I'm Climbing On Top of the Hill, during which Terry, a man with a rhythmic soul, seemed to be singing and playing his harmonica at the same time. Sticking to the tried and true, they followed with John Henry, Take This Hammer and Poor Howard's Dead and Gone, an old Leadbelly song which Terry recorded...
...fame and beauty, was writing to her "Joey the Clown" about appearing in his Pygmalion, through the declining days in Hollywood (where Stella was like "some sinking frigate firing broadside after broadside at anyone who tried to help her"), to the year before Stella's bitter, poverty-stricken death in a Pyrenees village in 1940, when the 83-year-old Shaw wrote a plaintive curtain line...
After graduation from Havana University, Castro spent much of his time defending poverty stricken peasants caught in the snares of the intricate Cuban laws. Cuban law is derived from the Spanish, rather than Anglo-Saxon, tradition, which accounts for some of the misunderstanding incurred between Americans and Cubans, especially over the question of trials. The Latin American conception of justice includes not only objective considerations of evidence, but human factors, personality and prevailing emotion...