Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nothing Shameful." A year and a half after Lucy's marriage, F.D.R. was stricken with polio. Writes Daniels: "However complete or incomplete had been the reconciliation between Eleanor and Franklin after their marriage was threatened, now he was hers to serve and to save." Nonetheless, F.D.R. and Lucy were to be "attached by ties of deep and unbroken affection to the day he died." By all accounts, F.D.R. thereafter kept in frequent contact with Lucy. For example, says Daniels, he "quietly arranged for special tickets and a special car for Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd at his Inauguration...
Trinidad's new nurse was the advance guard from a University of Colorado School of Medicine program designed to lighten the work loads of practicing physicians by training nurses to perform most of the duties of a pediatrician, and to carry medical care to the children of poverty-stricken laboring families, including many Spanish-Americans, who rarely consult a doctor except in dire emergencies. To its founder, Pediatrics Professor Henry Silver, 48, the program is immensely promising in every aspect except for the unwieldy name that has been hung on the new breed of nurses: "pediatric public-health nurse...
...average of 20 emergencies a night have been handled by the five doctors on patrol, and the public loudly approves the new setup. Other Parisian doctors are as delighted as the emergency patients. The SOS service allows them to choose to stay home even if a personal patient is stricken...
...rolled leftward across its top, damaging the B-70's tall, right vertical stabilizer and snapping off the left one. Over the intercom to ground control crackled Cotton's voice: "Midair, mid-air"-Air Force shorthand for collision. Then, sounding almost laconic, Cotton radioed guidance to the stricken ship's two-man crew: "O.K., it looks like your tail is gone . . . You'll probably spin." And as the B70 did wind into a flat spin: "Bail out." Then: "One capsule has ejected, I don't know which one." Seconds later: "It's the left...
Harry F. Byrd Sr., the man who built the machine and set it running when he was elected governor in 1926, retired from the Senate last November after running unopposed for reelection in 1964. Seventy-eight years old and stricken with arthritis, he had outgoing governor Albertis S. Harrison appoint "Young Harry," 51, to take his place. Virginia liberals and moderates railed against the "hereditary succession" and prepared to take on Byrd Jr. and Robertson in the state Democratic primary July...