Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bloody head as the car squeals around corners and the body refuses to disengage itself from the door. Again and again the camera will not spare us the after-effects of the gun battles, and we are trapped inside the getaway car as members of the gang, panic stricken and hysterical, are ripped apart by machine gun bullets. The death of Clyde's brother, Buck, virtually abandoned in a field, surrounded by vicious law officers, is unbearably powerful...
...China prepared for its National Day, celebrating the 18th anniversary this week of Mao Tse-tung's proclamation of a Chinese Communist state, Correspondent John Cantwell crossed into Mao's stricken land for TIME. An Australian who speaks both Cantonese and Mandarin, Cantwell spent several days in the big South China city of Canton, the scene of recent anti-Maoist riots and disorders. He found the city of 2,500,000 relatively quiet on the surface but seething underneath with barely repressed violence. His report...
...Grief-stricken, uncomprehending, terrified of being sent to an orphanage, they decide to bury Mother in the garden and tell no one. "Everything will be just as it has always been," says Elsa, the oldest. Under her direction, they go to school as usual, do the housekeeping, and maintain a kind of brawling, sprawling discipline based on love for each other and fear of the perils outside the old stained-glass door. They are sustained, too, by a mother cult-complete with sepulchral candles and antiphonal responses-in which one sensitive girl plays Sibyl for her siblings, delivering utterances from...
Flaring through parched timberland in the drought-stricken Pacific Northwest last week, the worst forest fires in more than half a century defied efforts to contain them. So far this year, some 1,800 fires have destroyed more than 105,000 acres of timber in Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Fire-fighting costs have climbed to $17 million; damage to the economy of Oregon alone is estimated at $5,000,000 a day. Because of the menace, most of the national forests in Montana, Or egon and Washington were closed to tourists and logging. President Johnson has declared Idaho...
...death. Throughout the Detroit riot there was-as in Newark-a spectacularly perverse mood of gaiety and light-hearted abandon in the mob-a "carnival spirit," as a shocked Mayor Cavanagh called it, echoing the words used by New Jersey's Governor Richard Hughes after he toured stricken Newark three weeks...