Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after 68 days' gadding about the world, from Stockholm to Hollywood, from anti-Communist Turkey to Communist Viet Nam, jovial President Sukarno flew back to his stricken land. Anticipating his arrival, army commanders converged on the capital, took rooms in the rambling red brick Hotel des Indes, discussed the situation far into the night. Strongly supporting their chief of staff, Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution, 40, the officers still seem eager to seek a workable partnership with Sukarno. Urging a return to the President's 1945 constitution and a further dose of "guided" democracy, they demanded...
When myxomatosis was accidentally imported* into England in 1953, the homeland of Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail was horrified. Every rabbit from Penzance to the Orkneys, it seemed, was dying or dead. Stricken animals with grotesquely swollen heads hobbled aimlessly on highways, and carcasses lay stinking in ditches...
Aparajito (Indian). Part two, following Father Panchali, of Director Satyajit Ray's brilliantly illuminating trilogy on a poverty-stricken Indian family...
Aparajito (Indian). Part two, following Father Panchali, of Director Satyajit Ray's brilliantly illuminating trilogy on a poverty-stricken Indian family...
Aparajito (Indian). Part two, following Father Panchali, of Director Satyajit Ray's brilliantly illuminating trilogy on a poverty-stricken Indian family...