Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month later, the same strange symptoms, complete with blue facial mottling, were reported from Omaha. There was a total of 64 cases, with 30 deaths. The stricken Americans were not such heavy hoisters as the Canadians, but they did average a six-pack a day. Quebec's Dr. Morin Hew to Omaha. Sure enough, a check with a local brewery turned up cobalt. It was eliminated and so was the disease...
Success Overlooked. Balogh's ideas are an. odd mixture of common sense and doctrinaire Pestering. He believes that capitalism is "on the defensive" and distrusts the "North Atlantic Protestant atmosphere" that favors private initiative. "Only totalitarianism and Communist compulsion," he says, "have succeeded in lifting poverty-stricken countries onto the road of progressive improvement." Balogh's tune has hardly changed a note since the early postwar era, when he proclaimed confidently that only the long continuance of direct economic controls could restore Europe's prosperity...
...fairy godmother. The year was 1900, and Mary, Scotland-born and Chicago-reared, was an impoverished young soprano who haunted rehearsals at the Comique. Her moment came when, during a performance of Gustave Charpentier's Louise, the lead soprano suddenly collapsed after the second act. Panic-stricken, the director asked Mary if she could fill in. Though she had never sung on a stage before, much less with an orchestra, she pluckily replied: "Have no fear. I shall not fail." She hastily pinned her 98 lbs. into a costume several sizes too large and boldly stepped onstage. She caused...
...record indicates that Lyndon Johnson was every inch the gentlemanly sympathizer during those tense moments in Dallas and later in Washington. Jackie wrote several letters to Johnson after the assassination, reported the Chicago Daily News, that "contradict the account of Mr. John son's behavior toward the grief-stricken widow." In addition, Johnson's statement to the Warren Commission shows his sensitive concern for Jackie at a time when he still was not sure about his own safety or the country...
William Manchester, stricken with trichinosis, enters Flower Fifth Avenue Mrs. John F. Kennedy sends him a candy-gram. After a ten-minute walking tour of South Vietnam, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara predicts the war will be over...