Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...killing ground of South Viet Nam itself, very little of equal value was happening. In a panic-stricken debacle along Saigon's Hai Ba Trung Street U.S. military police opened fire on a truckload of civilian dockworkers and killed six of them. In Danang far to the north, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky made an even more quaking move: a group of Vietnamese marines "invaded" Danang and quietly established control over the major center of Buddhist political unrest, then lounged peacefully on the grass. That quietude may well be shattered by Buddhist riots. From Saigon to the Red Chinese border...
...past three years the CPEO has sent college faculty members to over 500 high schools in poverty stricken areas, mostly in the South to impress seniors with the need for further education...
...bore her second son, Edmund, (representing O'Neill himself). The eldest son, Jamie, has wasted away an acting and writing talent in a Broadway life of whiskey and cynicism. Edmund, vaguely seeking to be a poet after running to sea, has returned to the family's summer home stricken with consumption...
Everyone who saw him still remembers how calm Soviet Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov appeared. In a hillside bunker overlooking the Kustrin bridgehead, less than 38 miles from the stricken city, he rested both elbows on the concrete ledge and took a last look into the predawn darkness through his field glasses. Finally, he glanced at his watch and allowed a few more seconds to tick by before he said, "Now, comrades...
Brooke cited education, transportation, and anti-poverty as areas in which the Republicans could create new programs. He attacked the War on Poverty program for its reliance on local city organizations. "What the poverty stricken need," he said, "is to learn to organize to face municipal machinery...